Telegraph.co.uk
02 May 2015
Gas suspected in Syria attacks
Syrian state TV said the shelling today also left 45 injured. The dead included children, the report said without elaborating.
02 May 2015
Suspected chlorine gas attacks by Syrian government helicopters injured some 40 people and killed a child in the country's northwest, activists said today, a day after an international chemical weapons watchdog said it was ready to investigate a series of newly claimed attacks.
Videos shared by the Syrian Civil Defence activist group showed medics and residents rushing children to a local hospital as they coughed, some gasping for air in Saraqeb, a town in Idlib province.
A video from Nareb, another town in the province where a coalition of insurgent groups has made gains in recent days against troops loyal to President Bashar Assad, showed a medic receiving oxygen himself after rescuing people from another attack.
The videos appeared genuine and corresponded to other Associated Press reporting about the attacks.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists on the ground, said the attacks overnight yesterday injured at least 40 civilians, including children.
The Observatory said medical officials in Nareb said a child was killed, though the cause of death was not clear.
The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, also reported the suspected chemical attack in Saraqeb.
There was no mention of the attacks in Syrian state media.
Chlorine was first introduced as a chemical weapon in the FIrst World War with disastrous effects as gas masks were not widely available. While chlorine has many industrial and public uses, as a weapon it can choke victims to death.
Most nations banned its use in war in the Geneva Protocol of 1925. The US and other countries have blamed Assad's government of repeatedly of dropping chlorine from helicopters during the civil war, as no other force is flying them in the conflict. Forces loyal to Assad have blamed rebels for such attacks.
The suspected attacks come a day after The Associated Press obtained a report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons saying a fact-finding team from the group is ready to look into multiple allegations of chlorine attacks in recent months. The Syrian government would need to approve the group's visit.
Activists had reported a similar attack on Saraqeb on Wednesday.
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