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| Syrian ‘moderate rebels’ used toxic gas in Aleppo attack – Russian military | Syrian ‘moderate rebels’ used toxic gas in Aleppo attack – Russian military |
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| Syrian fighters from a rebel group considered ‘moderate’ by Washington are responsible for using toxic gas shells that killed seven and injured 23 in Aleppo on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Russian Ministry of Defense. | |
| “On August 2, 2016 at 19 hours 05 minutes militants from the Harakat Nour al-Din al-Zenki group, considered by Washington as ‘moderate opposition’, launched poisonous materials from the Sukkari district towards the eastern part of Aleppo,” the ministry said. | |
| It added that the territory is under rebel control and that shells were fired towards “the residential area” of the Salah-Eddin district. | |
| Moscow informed Washington of the use of toxic shells on Monday, Lieutenant-General Sergey Chvarkov, head of the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria, said. | |
| In the statement, the official added that terrorists in the area are hampering the efforts of locals trying to flee the embattled eastern parts of the city. | |
| “Terrorists are trying to prevent the population from fleeing the eastern part of the city of Aleppo the best they can, threatening to shoot civilians or publicly execute them. There are reports that children and women are being turned into suicide bombers to carry out terrorist acts,” Chvarkov stated. | |
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