Teen girl second fatality in alleged Aleppo chlorine attack

7 September 2016, 6:24 pm

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An official in Syria’s contested city of Aleppo says a 13-year old girl has died after a suspected chlorine attack the previous day.

Mohammed Abu Jaafar, head of the local forensic department in the rebel-held part of Aleppo, says the girl died overnight of suffocation and respiratory burns.

A 29-year old man also died from respiratory failure after the attack.

Mohammed Abu Rajab, a technician in an Aleppo medical center, says the teen was admitted to the intensive care unit following a suspected chlorine attack in the city’s al-Sukkari neighborhood on Tuesday.

He says she was suffering from the impact of the explosion, gas inhalation and burns. Her facial bones were broken.

— AP