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August 24, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11819472/Islamic-State-accused-of-using-mustard-gas-in-the-battle-around-Aleppo-in-Syria.html

Islamic State Accused of Using Mustard Gas in Syria

(Telegraph-UK) Louisa Loveluck - Militants from Islamic State have been accused of using mustard gas in the battle around Aleppo in Syria. Doctors in Marea, 25 km. north of the city, said they had treated more than 30 patients with suppurating blisters in the wake of IS shelling. "If they are real, the injury photos look straight out of a textbook," said Colonel Hamish de Bretton Gordon, a chemical weapons expert who advises the British government. The attack follows a similar one two weeks ago in which Kurdish troops in northern Iraq complained of symptoms similar to those used in mustard gas attacks.

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