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’ISIL’ Used Chemical Weapons against Kurds

’ISIL’ Used Chemical Weapons against Kurds
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The "ISIL" militants used poison gas while shelling a Kurdish village in late June, the so-called Observatory for Human Rights reports, citing medical testimonies and analyses.

’ISIL’ Used Chemical Weapons against Kurds

The rights group stated that it has documented the accounts from the June 28 chemical weapons attack in detail.

According to the Observatory, the attack targeted the village of Rajm al-Tfihi, located south of Tal Brak in Syria's north-eastern al-Hasakah Governorate.

At least 12 YPG [Kurdish People's Defense Units] fighters suffered vomiting, suffocation and eye-burns in the aftermath of an "ISIL" shelling of the village, the report says.

The monitor obtained doctors' testimonies and laboratory analysis that it says confirm that the extremist group used some sort of a poison gas in the attack. It has not been determined whether the gas used was chlorine or another substance, the report says.

None of the Kurdish fighters hit by the chemical attack died, but only because they were promptly hospitalized, according to YPG spokesman Redur Xelil, as cited by Reuters.

The YPG has issued a statement saying that there have been recent incidents indicating that a chemical attack by the "ISIL" was possible. Kurdish militia is said to have captured industrial grade gas masks from "ISIL", "confirming that they are prepared and equipped for chemical warfare along this sector of the front."

The statement said the victims of the June 28 attack "experienced burning of the throat, eyes and nose, combined with severe headaches, muscle pain and impaired concentration and mobility," as well as vomiting.

Meanwhile, the Observatory called on the UN Security Council to send an international probe to Syria to "detect the use of gases by "ISIL" ."


Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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