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Syria aid deliveries halted amid reports of chemical attacks
Source: The Guardian
Syria aid deliveries halted amid reports of chemical attacks
More than 90 people were killed overnight and dozens more hurt in eastern Ghouta, monitor says
Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul
Thu 8 Mar 2018 16.12 GMT
Doctors and rescue workers in the besieged Syrian region of eastern Ghouta have said are struggling to cope with another intense bout of what they described as “insane” violence, in which more than 90 people were killed overnight, according to war monitors.
The airstrikes and shelling of the enclave near Damascus led to the postponement of aid deliveries to more than 300,000 people under siege, amid military advances by forces loyal to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The suffering was compounded by overnight reports of incendiary weapons and chemical attacks targeting two towns in Ghouta, with doctors reporting symptoms consistent with exposure to organophosphorous or chlorine.
“To all of those outside Ghouta, living in peace and comfort … I wish to tell you that children, women, the elderly and infants are all dying today in full view of the world,” said one rescue worker.
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More than 90 people were killed overnight and dozens more hurt in eastern Ghouta, monitor says
Kareem Shaheen in Istanbul
Thu 8 Mar 2018 16.12 GMT
Doctors and rescue workers in the besieged Syrian region of eastern Ghouta have said are struggling to cope with another intense bout of what they described as “insane” violence, in which more than 90 people were killed overnight, according to war monitors.
The airstrikes and shelling of the enclave near Damascus led to the postponement of aid deliveries to more than 300,000 people under siege, amid military advances by forces loyal to the regime of Bashar al-Assad.
The suffering was compounded by overnight reports of incendiary weapons and chemical attacks targeting two towns in Ghouta, with doctors reporting symptoms consistent with exposure to organophosphorous or chlorine.
“To all of those outside Ghouta, living in peace and comfort … I wish to tell you that children, women, the elderly and infants are all dying today in full view of the world,” said one rescue worker.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/08/ghouta-syria-aid-convoy-postponed-chemical-attack
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