World Bulletin / News Desk

The famous lights of the Eiffel Tower were switched off tonight in a show of solidarity with the under-siege Syrian city of Aleppo.

Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo had announced earlier that the iconic 300m-high landmark will be plunged into darkness at 8pm.

A ceasefire deal was brokered on Tuesday to bring peace to what the United Nations has branded a “meltdown of humanity” that has killed more than 400,000 people, however was broken just hours later with continous bombing by the Assad regime.