Innocents Children Among Over 1,000 Civilians Gassed To Death In Syria | PHOTO
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WARNING: SHOCKING IMAGES The worst atrocity of the brutal civil war came just days after a UN weapons inspection team arrived
Innocent children lie dead in pictures that will horrify the world.
Many of the victims were found huddled in their beds – as if still sleeping. Others died in agony, convulsing and foaming at the mouth.
They were among more than 1,000 Syrian civilians, including men, women and children, massacred in a suspected chemical weapons attack.
The slaughter – the worst atrocity of the nation’s brutal civil war – came just days after a United Nations weapons inspection team arrived in Syria.
Responsibility for the sarin-style nerve gas bombardment in the Al Ghouta area, east of the capital Damascus, was immediately denied by President Bashar al Assad’s beleaguered regime.
Officials dismissed the claims as “illogical and fabricated”. They said it was a sign of “hysteria and floundering” by the government’s enemies.
But as shocking pictures of the carnage were beamed around the world last night there were mounting calls for military intervention.
Foreign Secretary William Hague vowed the culprits would be held to account.
He added: “If verified, this would mark a shocking escalation in the use of chemical weapons in Syria.”
His concern was echoed by the European Union which stressed the need for a “thorough and immediate” investigation.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry branded the killings “a crime against humanity”.
Unverified images included lines of apparently dead children, their bodies wrapped in shrouds ready for burial.
The death toll is said to be the highest for a single day in the two and a half years of civil war that has claimed more than 100,000 lives on all sides.
Rebels claim Assad’s troops launched a desperate artillery bombardment against pockets of resistance outside east Damascus early yesterday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on contacts within Syria, said the shelling was intense and hit the eastern suburbs of Zamalka, Arbeen and Ein Tarma.
They claim the military fired “rockets with poisonous gas heads” in the 3am attack.
Rescuer Abu Nidal told of the chilling scenes following the shelling.
He said: “We would go into a house and everything was in its place, every person was in their place.
“They were lying where they had been. They looked like they were asleep. But they were dead, entire families.
"We saw men collapsed on staircases and in doorways. It looked like they were trying to go in and help and were then overcome themselves.”
Many of the victims were found huddled in their beds – as if still sleeping. Others died in agony, convulsing and foaming at the mouth.
They were among more than 1,000 Syrian civilians, including men, women and children, massacred in a suspected chemical weapons attack.
The slaughter – the worst atrocity of the nation’s brutal civil war – came just days after a United Nations weapons inspection team arrived in Syria.
Responsibility for the sarin-style nerve gas bombardment in the Al Ghouta area, east of the capital Damascus, was immediately denied by President Bashar al Assad’s beleaguered regime.
Officials dismissed the claims as “illogical and fabricated”. They said it was a sign of “hysteria and floundering” by the government’s enemies.
But as shocking pictures of the carnage were beamed around the world last night there were mounting calls for military intervention.
Foreign Secretary William Hague vowed the culprits would be held to account.
He added: “If verified, this would mark a shocking escalation in the use of chemical weapons in Syria.”
His concern was echoed by the European Union which stressed the need for a “thorough and immediate” investigation.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry branded the killings “a crime against humanity”.
Unverified images included lines of apparently dead children, their bodies wrapped in shrouds ready for burial.
The death toll is said to be the highest for a single day in the two and a half years of civil war that has claimed more than 100,000 lives on all sides.
Rebels claim Assad’s troops launched a desperate artillery bombardment against pockets of resistance outside east Damascus early yesterday.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on contacts within Syria, said the shelling was intense and hit the eastern suburbs of Zamalka, Arbeen and Ein Tarma.
They claim the military fired “rockets with poisonous gas heads” in the 3am attack.
Rescuer Abu Nidal told of the chilling scenes following the shelling.
He said: “We would go into a house and everything was in its place, every person was in their place.
“They were lying where they had been. They looked like they were asleep. But they were dead, entire families.
"We saw men collapsed on staircases and in doorways. It looked like they were trying to go in and help and were then overcome themselves.”
