People were treated for breathing difficulties after a bomb thought to be filled with chlorine was dropped on a rebel-held town in Syria
The raids came a day after rebels brought down a Russian Su-25 warplane over the province.
A medic working for the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations (UOSSM), a charity which supports hospitals in rebel-held Syria, spoke about the attack. He reported that Saraqeb was struck by a barrel bomb dropped by a helicopter that had taken off from a nearby government base.
He added that people brought to local hospitals after the attack smelt of chlorine and suffered breathing problems and irritation in their eyes.
It would be recalled that a joint investigation by experts from the United Nations and the Organisations for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrived at some conclusions two years ago. It said that government forces had used chlorine as a weapon at least three times between 2014 and 2015
In 2013, the Syrian government declared that it would destroy its chemical weapons arsenal after hundreds of people died in a Sarin attack in Damascus.
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