At least 18 people were killed in the Syrian city of Khan shaykhun because of the alleged gas attack. On it informs BBC News referring to the located in London Syrian Observatory for human rights.
Khan shaykhun is held by forces of the Syrian opposition, which blames the incident on the government troops. According associated with the opposition Orient News portal, dead could be more than 40 and injured around 200.
“The planes of Assad inflicted air strikes three. During one of them used poison gas. The symptoms that we see are not caused by chlorine poisoning — is affected saliva”, — said one of the fighters of the opposition of the militia. Twitter account Conflict News published photos from the scene.
Damascus denies using chemical weapons in the civil war, however, the Organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons has concluded that Syrian government forces used chlorine at least twice in the period from 2014 to 2015. Russia then said he was alarmed by the statement, however, called the report inconclusive.