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Syrian state media says militants shell village with gas, injuring 21

Saturday, 23 March 2019 10:10 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 23 March 2019 10:23 PM ]

A Syrian girl receives treatment at a hospital in Aleppo on November 24, 2018. (AFP photo)

Syrian state media on Saturday cited a hospital in government-held Hama as saying 21 people suffered choking symptoms from poison gas after militants shelled a village.

A war monitor, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, also said 21 people were hospitalized with choking symptoms, but it was not known if this was from chemicals or smoke and dust raised by the shelling.

PressTV-Syria slams Western statement on use of chemical arms

Damascus denounces a statement by the US, Britain and France on the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government.

State news agency SANA cited the head of the Saqilbia National Hospital as saying the attack took place in the village of al-Rasif in Hama’s northern countryside and it published images and footage of people lying in hospital beds wearing oxygen masks.

PressTV-Syria never used chemical weapons: Deputy FM

The Syrian deputy foreign minister says Damascus has never used any chemical weapons in its war against terrorists.

In the past several years, militants have launched dozens of chemical attacks in Syria. Damascus has called on the United Nations to take action in this regard.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global watchdog, has documented systematic use of nerve agent sarin and chlorine during Syria's eight-year conflict.

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