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Terrorists have fired shells filled with a toxic gas in the Syrian city of Aleppo, killing five civilians, local popular defense forces told RIA Novosti.
"Terrorists have used a weapon causing asphyxia and damaging the nervous system. Five people have died from suffocation," a militia member said.Syria has been mired in civil war since 2011, with government forces loyal to President Bashar Assad fighting numerous opposition factions and extremist groups.
Aleppo is partially controlled by Jabhat Fatah al Sham (previously known as the
al-Nusra Front), an terrorist group outlawed in Russia and other countries along with Daesh.
Comment: It should be pretty clear where these terrorists are getting their chemical weapons. The US has been supporting ISIS financially and arming them, so supplying them with chemical weapons wouldn't be too much of a stretch. It's especially ironic, since the US at one point
claimed the Assad government
used chemical weapons against its own people, and use that as a pretext for "regime change". It was a claim that was
proven false, and now the groups they are supporting are doing exactly what they were claiming Assad was doing.
Update: Local officials now
report that at least 7 civilians have died and 25 more are injured from shells containing toxic gas:
A terrorist attack on the Old City of Aleppo on Tuesday with "shells containing toxic gas" led to the death of five and suffocation of eight more civilians, the outlet quoted the city's health director, Mohamad Hazouri, as saying.
A local police source told SANA that terrorist groups fired rocket shells on the al-Hamadaniyeh neighborhood, injuring six. They also targeted the Salah-Eddin neighborhood, killing two and injuring 11 more.
"During the day in the province of Aleppo, terrorists fired mortars at the town of Ansar and two heights in the surrounding area, [and the] neighborhoods [of] Hai al-Ansari, Leramon, al- Khalidia and a shopping center "Castello" in the city of Aleppo were also targeted,"the statement reads.
Comment: It should be pretty clear where these terrorists are getting their chemical weapons. The US has been supporting ISIS financially and arming them, so supplying them with chemical weapons wouldn't be too much of a stretch. It's especially ironic, since the US at one point claimed the Assad government used chemical weapons against its own people, and use that as a pretext for "regime change". It was a claim that was proven false, and now the groups they are supporting are doing exactly what they were claiming Assad was doing.
Update: Local officials now report that at least 7 civilians have died and 25 more are injured from shells containing toxic gas: