28 Mar 2024
Wednesday 3 August 2016 - 10:20
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Chemical attack kills five Syrians in Aleppo: SANA

At least five Syrians have been killed and a number of others injured in a chemical attack by foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants against a residential neighborhood in northwestern Syria, a report says.

The health director for the Syrian city of Aleppo, Mohammad Hazouri, said five people died and eight others experienced breathing difficulties after artillery shells containingtoxic gassesslammed into the Old City of Aleppo, located some 355 kilometers (220 miles) north of the capital, Damascus, on Tuesday, Syrias official news agency SANA reported.

The chemical raid in Aleppo comes as the Syrian army is making progress in operations to retake the city from militants. The United States has pressured Syria to loosen its siege of the city. Russia, which has been carrying out an aerial campaign against militants in Syria, has formed corridors for the safe exit of civilians from Aleppo amid Syrian army operations.

Meanwhile, Syrian government sources said Takfiri terrorists had also used chemical munitions against civilians in the militant-held city of Saraqib, which administratively belongs to the northwestern province of Idlib.

Doctor Ibrahim al-Assad, a neurologist in Saraqib, said he treated 16 of 29 cases brought to his hospital on Monday night.

He added that most of the victims were women and childrenand were suffering from breathing difficulties, red eyes and wheezing.

Rescuers and doctors in the city said the symptoms were similar to those caused bychlorine gas.

Militant forces have, in return, accused government forces of having launchedthe toxic gas attack.

This is while the Syrian government turned over its entire chemical stockpile under a deal negotiated by Russia and the United States back in 2013.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has overseen operations to remove the chemical stockpiles from Syria.

The deal came after an August 2013 gas attack that killed hundreds of people in the Ghouta suburb of Damascus. According to reports, the rockets used in the assault were handmade and contained sarin.

While the Syrian government denied having been responsible for the Ghouta attack, it agreed to have its chemical stockpiles removed under the Russia-US deal to avoid an American invasion.



[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="555"] A man receives treatment at a hospital following a Daesh chemical attack in the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood of Syrias northwestern city of Aleppo, April 7, 2016.[/caption]

On April 7, 23 people lost their lives and over 100 others suffered breathing difficulties when Daesh terrorists carried out a chemical attack against members of the Kurdish Peoples Protection Units (YPG) in the Sheikh Maqsood neighborhood of Aleppo.

Syria has been gripped by foreign-backed militancy since March 2011. The United Nations (UN)s Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura estimates that over 400,000 people have been killed in the conflict.

Back in 2014, the UN said it would no more update its death toll for Syria because it could not verify the figures that it received from various sources.

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