An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog established there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria's air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog established there are “reasonable grounds to believe”'s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people.
The organization said that “reasonable grounds to believe” is the standard of proof consistently adopted by international fact-finding bodies and commissions of inquiry., which joined the OPCW in 2013 under pressure from the international community after being blamed for another deadly chemical weapon attack, does not recognize the investigation team's authority and has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons.
The report said there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that during a government military offensive to recapture Douma, at least oneOne of the cylinders hit the roof of a three-story residential building and ruptured, “rapidly released toxic gas, chlorine, in very high concentrations, which rapidly dispersed within the building killing 43 named individuals and affecting dozens more,” according to the report.
The painstaking investigation by the organization's team, was set up to identify perpetrators of chemical weapon attacks in, built on earlier findings by an OPCW fact-finding mission that chlorine was used as a weapon in Douma.
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