Syrian state media says that rebels fired shells containing toxic gas into government-held parts of Aleppo, leaving dozens of people including civilians in need of treatment.
State news agency SANA reports that 35 people were suffering from “suffocation” after shells carrying “toxic gases” hit the frontline district of Dahiyet al-Assad and regime-held Hamdaniyeh in Aleppo.
It says people were suffering from shortness of breath, muscle spasms and numbness, but were receiving treatment.
Smoke billows from the frontline district of Dahiyet al-Assad following an attack by rebels on Syrian regime forces in the northern city of Aleppo on October 29, 2016. (AFP/ KARAM AL-MASRI)
The head of Aleppo University Hospital, Ibrahim Hadid, tells state television that “36 people, including civilians and combatants, were wounded after inhaling toxic chlorine gas released by terrorists.”
The allegation comes on the third day of a rebel offensive to break a three-month siege of the opposition-held eastern part of Aleppo.
— AFP
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