At least eight people were injured in Aleppo’s Marea, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights
ISIS has reportedly fired rockets containing toxic gas into Marea, the latest rudimentary chemical attack by the extremist group against the rebel-held town outside Aleppo.
Local activist outlets, including the Marea Media Center, said Tuesday evening that there were several cases of suffocation in the beleaguered town after the ISIS strike, however there were no reports of any deaths.
“We have received several injured people suffering from suffocation, redness in the eyes and difficulty breathing,” a doctor in Marea’s Freedom Field Hospital told the pro-opposition Souriat News.
The unnamed medical practitioner added that the injured were “injected with cortisone shots, while the affected areas of their body were washed down with cold water.”
Shortly after the attack, images circulated social media showing the shells fired into Marea as well first responders with gas masks rushing to the scene of the strike.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights documenting violations in the war-torn country said that at least 8 people were injured in the toxic gas attack, including a woman and a young girl.
The exact substance packed into the projectiles fired into Marea remains in question, with ARA news reporting it was chlorine—which has been used repeatedly as a weapon in Syria—while other outlets and activists said only that it was a “toxic substance.”
Marea, which lies in a strip of opposition-held north of Aleppo hemmed in by Kurdish and ISIS front-lines, has been stricken by a number of chemical attacks launched by the transnational jihadist group.
The UN’s Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon revealed in report that its findings indicated a “non-state actor” hit the north Aleppo town with mustard gas on August 21, 2015, killing a young child.
Sources in the watchdog told AFP that it was the first confirmed use of the internationally proscribed weapon since the start of the Syrian war in 2011.
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