Syria army ‘categorically denies’ chemical attack

The Syrian army denies involvement in a suspected chemical attack that left dozens of people dead in an opposition-held town in the country’s northwest.

“The army command categorically denies using any chemical or toxic substance in Khan Sheikhun today,” says a statement carried by the state news agency SANA.

“It stresses that it has never used them, any time, anywhere, and will not do so in the future,” it adds.

An unconscious Syrian child is carried at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack on April 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour)
An unconscious Syrian child is carried at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack on April 4, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Omar haj kadour)

— AFP

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