Over 100 Affected by Gas Attack in Aleppo, Syria

Damascus, Nov 25 (Prensa Latina) The number of civilians affected by terrorist attacks with toxic gas projectiles reached 107 people in three neighborhoods of the Syrian city of Aleppo, 350 kilometers north of Damascus, officials said on Sunday.

The areas attacked were the neighborhoods of Kahldiyeh, Nilo and Jameyit Zahraa, in the west of the city and all the cases showed signs of suffocation, said Issam al Shali, police chief in Aleppo.

For his part, the governor of the province, Hussein Diab, toured the University and Razi health centers where those affected receive treatment, some of them reported in serious conditions.

Razi, in statements to the media, indicated that this terrorist attack confirms once again the possession of chemical weapons by terrorists, and urged the international community to assume its responsibility in this regard.

According to the sources, the symptoms of the injured respond to intoxication by inhalation of gases of a type of chlorine.

Terrorists are positioned west of Aleppo, which is less than 80 kilometers from the administrative borders with the province of Idlib.

Groups of extremists concentrate there without respecting truce or accepting negotiations, more than 40,000 terrorists led by former Al Nusra Front are stationed in Idlib.

That region, as well as northern Latakia and Hama, is contemplated in the demilitarized zone that Russia and Turkey agreed to establish last September with the acceptance of Syria.

Insistent denunciations, both from Moscow and Damascus, indicate that extremists in Idlib and areas near Aleppo frequently launch provocations and attacks with chemical substances.