Suspected gas attack on Aleppo causes deaths, injuries: hospital, rescuers
Source: Reuters
At least four people died and many suffered breathing difficulties when a gas, believed to be chlorine, was dropped alongside barrel bombs on a neighborhood of the Syrian city of Aleppo on Wednesday, a hospital and a civil defense group told Reuters.
Hamza Khatib, the manager of Al Quds hospital in Aleppo, told a Reuters photographer the hospital had recorded four deaths from gas poisoning and 55 injuries. Seven people were still receiving hospital treatment.
Khatib said he was preserving pieces of patients clothing and fragments from the barrel bombs as evidence for analysis.
Syria Civil Defence, a Syrian rescue service operating in rebel-held territory, told Reuters it had recorded three deaths and 22 injuries after a barrel containing a gas suspected of being chlorine fell on the Zubdiya neighborhood of rebel-held Aleppo.
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World | Wed Aug 10, 2016 7:23pm EDT
ALEPPO | BY ABDALRAHMAN ISMAIL
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