In the attack on the Syrian city of Duma in april 2018, is chlorine gas used. That sets the OPCW, the international watchdog that oversees the ban on the use of chemical weapons, in a final report.
According to the OPCW, there are “reasonable motives” to think that in the attack near the Syrian capital, Damascus, on 7 april last year, a chemical weapon is used. And that chemical weapon contained chlorine gas, says the.
Duma was in the hands of the rebels. According to the human rights council of the United Nations comb with the attack certainly one of fifty people to. Up to 650 people were killed or wounded.
There was a fierce controversy about the poison gas attack. The Syrian opposition and the West suggested the Syrian government forces are responsible. Because of the incident, bombed the United States, France and Great Britain, the positions of the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Syria and ally Russia have the accusations still rejected. According to them, it was a staged attack by insurgents.
The OPCW mentions in his report is not responsible for the attack.