Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

April 04, 2017

Middle East

Dozens including children suffocate to death in chemical attack

A CHEMICAL attack has killed at least 35 people including nine children with many more wounded after air strikes released “toxic gas” that caused civilians to choke to death in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib.

A Syrian child receives treatment following a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, on April 4, 2017. Picture: AFP / Mohamed al-Bakour

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