Sunday, August 25, 2013

Fears of food and water poisoning after Damascus gassings

Activists and medics manufacture homemade chemical masks in Damascus(This story was reported by a journalist whose name has been withheld for security reasons) DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Days after a suspected poison gas attack killed hundreds of people in crop-growing suburbs, residents of the Syrian capital say they are afraid their food and water supplies may be contaminated. Western countries believe President Bashar al-Assad's forces carried out the worst chemical weapons attack since Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds in 1988. Syria's government denies any role in the deaths and blames rebels. ...


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