«Breaking News» Chlorine WAS used in attack on Syrian town that left dozens dead in 2018

Chlorine gas was used in an attack on a Syrian town that left dozens dead in 2018, a chemical weapons watchdog said.

The United States condemned President Bashar al-Assad over the suspected use of poison gas on the housing block in Douma in April. 

Friday's report was swiftly batted away by Syria's main ally Russia, after the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released their findings.   

The Hague-based watchdog said in a statement that there were 'reasonable grounds that the use of a toxic chemical as a weapon has taken place on 7 April 2018.

People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria

Douma in the middle of April 2018 after the Syrian army declared that all anti-regime forces had left following a blistering two month offensive on the rebel enclave

President Bashar al-Assad delivering a speech at a meeting for the heads of local councils in the capital Damscus last month

'This toxic chemical contained reactive chlorine.'

The findings confirmed an interim report released last July, in which local sources quoted by the OPCW said at least 43 people were killed in the attack.

The watchdog said it found no evidence of the use of nerve agents in Douma, which had been previously alleged by some parties in the conflict.

The report does not place blame because it was not in the OPCW's remit at the time, although the watchdog has since been given powers to investigate responsibility for all chemical attacks in Syria back to 2014. 

Russia palmed off the OPCW report and claimed the attack had been 'staged' by Syrian rescue volunteers known as the White Helmets.

'In spite of all the evidence presented by Russia, Syria, and even British journalists that the Douma incident is no more than 'White helmets' staged provocation, Technical Secretariat of OPCW states in today's report that chlorine was used in Douma as a chemical weapon,' the Russian Embassy in The Hague tweeted.

A team of OPCW inspectors took more than 100 samples from some seven sites in Douma when they gained access to the town several weeks after the attack.

It said it reached its conclusions based on 'witnesses' testimonies, environmental and biomedical samples analysis results, toxicological and ballistic analyses from experts'.

The report said 'two yellow industrial cylinders dedicated for pressurised gas' were found at the scene, one of which had landed on top of the housing block and crashed through it.

It said it was 'possible that the cylinders were the source of the substances containing reactive chlorine.'

A banner depicting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Douma months after his warplanes rained down terror

Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) meets Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad in Tehran, Iran earlier this week - Iran and Russia have been key allies to the regime

The OPCW said witnesses reported to the inspection team that there were '43 decedents related to the alleged chemical incident, most of whom were seen in videos and photos strewn on the floor of multiple levels of an apartment building and in front of the same building.'

The watchdog also rejected claims by the Syrian regime that the gas had come from an alleged rebel chemical weapons facility and storehouse in the area, which inspectors were allowed to visit.

'From the analysis of the information gathered during the on-site visits to the warehouse and facility suspected of producing chemical weapons, there was no indication of either facility being involved in their manufacture,' it said.

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Main photo article Chlorine gas was used in an attack on a Syrian town that left dozens dead in 2018, a chemical weapons watchdog said.
The United States condemned President Bashar al-Assad over the suspected use of poison gas on the housing block in Douma in April. 
Friday’s report was swiftly batted away ...

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