(Telegraph-UK) Damien McElroy - Niazi Habash, a British-trained doctor who treated the victims from an attack in Aleppo on April 13 that killed 3 people and injured at least 15, said they showed symptoms of exposure to chemicals, including breathing difficulties, foaming at the mouth and pinprick pupils. Witnesses said the victims displayed the symptoms after a regime aircraft dropped containers that exploded and scattered their contents across a wide area of Sheikh Massoud, a Kurdish neighborhood whose residents recently defected from the regime to join the rebels. Dr. Habash administered doses of atropine, the recognized antidote for chemical weapons, to treat the injured, but two infants and an adult woman died of respiratory failure. This is the fourth credible report of chemical weapons being used in a Syrian attack in recent months. Experts said the effects in the video appeared similar to those suffered by Syrian villagers in Khan al-Assad, near Aleppo, last month.
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