The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says it has opened an investigation over the weekend’s suspected poison gas attack in Syria.
The organization’s director general, Ahmet Uzumcu, expresses “grave concern in response to the alleged chemical weapons attack” over the weekend in the town of Douma, near the capital, Damascus.
A statement by the agency says the OPCW has been closely monitoring the incident and made a preliminary analysis of the reports of the alleged use of chemical weapons immediately after they were issued.
Monday’s statement says a fact-finding mission is in the process of gathering further information from all available sources to establish whether chemical weapons were used.
The OPCW is the implementing body of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was signed by 192 states. Syria signed on to the convention in 2013.
— AP
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