Syria Civil War: Seven Die in Gas Attack by Assad Troops [VIDEO]
Syria Civil War: Seven Die in Gas Attack by Assad Troops [VIDEO] - IBTimes UK
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been accused of resorting to chemical weapons after seven people died from poisonous gas fumes in an assault on Homs.
Assad’s forces sprayed the al-Bayyada rebel-held neighbourhood in the western Syrian city with a poisonous gas similar to the lethal sarin, local activists told Al-Jazeera.
“The situation is very difficult. We do not have enough facemasks. We don’t know what this gas is but medics are saying it’s something similar to sarin gas,” Raji Rahmet Rabbou, an activist in Homs, told the Qatar-based television channel.
According to Al-Jazeera dozens of people were injured in the gas attack and reported nausea, loss of muscle use, blurred vision and breathing difficulties.
Such symptoms are similar to those caused by sarin, a gas the UN has classified as a weapon of mass destruction.