In pics: At least 100 killed, 400 injured in Syrian toxic gas attack

5 April 2017 1:47 PM IST

The death toll is likely to rise, according to the Union of Medical Care Organizations.

The team also visited other hospitals where casualties were being treated 'and reported that victims smelled of bleach, suggesting they had been exposed to chlorine'. (Photo: File/AP)
Syrian government denies the use of chemical weapons and has in turn accused rebels of using banned weapons.
UN-led investigation pointing the finger at the regime for at least three chlorine attacks in 2014 and 2015.
Syria's government officially joined the Chemical Weapons Convention and turned over its chemical arsenal in 2013.
The Britain-based monitoring group was unable to confirm the nature of the substance.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in the town of Khan Sheikhun, in Idlib province, had died from the effects of the gas.
The death toll is likely to rise, according to the Union of Medical Care Organizations.
Warplanes carried out a suspected toxic gas attack that killed at least 100 people in Syria's rebel-held north western province of Idlib.

More than 320,000 people have been killed in Syria since the conflict began in March 2011 with anti-government protests.

The death toll is likely to rise, according to the Union of Medical Care Organizations.