‘Chemical Attack’ In Syria’s Idlib Kills 35 People
MEP: At least 35 people, including nine children, were killed in an air raid that released “toxic gas” on the rebel-held Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun on Tuesday, a monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in the central province of Idlib. Dozens more suffered respiratory problems and other symptoms, the SOHR said.
Local opposition activists and news sites posted photos of those they said had died of asphyxiation.
The monitoring group, which monitors the war through a network of contacts on the ground, was unable to confirm the nature of the substance.
The reported gas attack comes at the start of a two-day conference on Syria’s future hosted in Brussels by the European Union and the United Nations.
Idlib province is largely controlled by an alliance of rebel factions and the al-Qaeda-linked jihadist group, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.
