The Syrian Civil Defence, a rescue workers' organization that operates in rebel-held areas, said government helicopters had dropped barrel bombs containing chlorine on the Sukari neighborhood in eastern Aleppo. The Syrian government has denied previous accusations it used chemical weapons during the five-year-old civil war. The Civil Defence said on its Facebook page that 80 people had suffocated. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syrian violence using sources on the ground, said medical sources had reported 70 cases of suffocation. The Civil Defence accused the government of two other suspected chlorine gas attacks in August .

Source: bd News24 September 07, 2016 08:15 UTC