An aid convoy that came under fire in a besieged neighborhood in Homs has left the area after delivering only a portion of the aid it was carrying , the Syrian Red Crescent said Saturday . `` Although the team was shelled and fired upon we managed to deliver 250 food parcels,190 hygiene kits and chronic diseases medicines , '' the organization said in a tweet . The team said that one driver suffered a minor injury when explosions and gunfire hit near the convoy in Homs . The convoy left , except for two trucks that were damaged and had to be left behind , the organization said . Valerie Amos , the U.N. humanitarian chief , lamented that the `` three-day humanitarian pause agreed ( upon ) was broken today and aid workers ( were ) deliberately targeted . '' `` Today 's events serve as a stark reminder of the dangers that civilians and aid workers face every day across Syria , '' said Amos , who applauded `` the courage and tenacity '' of U.N. and Red Crescent aid workers . Video from the scene posted by activists showed bullet holes in the aid vehicles , and damage to buildings from explosions . The state-run Syrian Arab News Agency had reported that four Syrian Arab Red Crescent workers were wounded Saturday by gunfire from `` terrorist groups '' while they were trying to deliver humanitarian aid to the Old City of Homs . Homs ' Governor Talal al-Barazi said that `` armed terrorist groups '' had violated a truce in the Old City by firing mortar shells on the police command building in the Old Sa ' a area . But in a statement to SANA , Barazi said the government would keep its promise to help get civilians out of the Old City of Homs . The government refers to rebels in the civil war that has fractured the country as `` terrorists . '' The U.N.-led operation to help civilians wishing to leave the Old City of Homs started Friday with the evacuation of 83 women , children and elderly civilians after an agreement between the government and opposition groups for a cease-fire that was also intended to allow for humanitarian aid to reach the city on Saturday . As many as 2,500 people are thought to be trapped in Homs , parts of which have been under siege since June 2012 . The first group of civilians was allowed to leave the city , SANA reported Friday . A video posted Saturday to YouTube showed more than a dozen civilians carrying bundles as they walked between four U.N. vehicles -- two on each side -- in an apparent attempt to avoid being shot . It was not clear whether they reached their destination . The killing flared anew Saturday across the nation , with at least 83 people killed , 10 of them children and six women , the Local Coordination Committees of Syria reported . Five of the deaths occurred in Homs , it said . Nearly half of the deaths -- 41 -- occurred in Aleppo , where video shot by an opposition activist and posted to YouTube showed the graphic aftermath of what the poster said was a barrel-bomb attack carried out by government helicopters : buildings with their faces blown off , bodies with their limbs blown off and cars ablaze . Barrel bombs are drums packed with explosives and shrapnel . `` Each and every barrel bomb filled with metal shrapnel and fuel launched against innocent Syrians underscores the barbarity of a regime that has turned its country into a super magnet for terror , '' U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said this week in a statement after another reported barrel-bomb attack on the northern city , which has become a flashpoint in the war .
U.N. humanitarian chief says aid workers were `` deliberately targeted '' Workers were trying to deliver humanitarian aid , but only a portion of it got through . Government blames `` terrorists '' for wounding 4 aid workers . But the Red Crescent says only one , a driver , suffered a minor injury .