GENEVA (Reuters) - Some 3,000 civilians and more than 40 wounded people, including children, were evacuated from east Aleppo on Thursday in two evacuations, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a statement.

"Many more" rotations of buses and ambulances would be needed in coming days, said Robert Mardini, ICRC regional director for the Near and Middle East, in an interview with Reuters in his Geneva office. He had just been briefed by ICRC's Syria delegation chief Marianne Gasser in Aleppo.