Sarin used in Khan Sheikhoun attack, UN watchdog
According to a fact-finding mission by the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog it has been concluded that the banned nerve agent Sarin had been used in an attack in northern Syria in April which had killed dozens of people.
A panel of the UN will now try to determine if the Syrian government had been responsible for the attack. The said attack on Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province had been the most deadly in the last three years and it had prompted a retaliatory US missile strike against a Syrian air base the US said had launched the attack.
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) the fact-finding mission for the UN, which is based in The Hague has concluded that, after interviewing witnesses and examining samples, “a large number of people, some of whom died, were exposed to Sarin or a Sarin-like substance.”
A summary of the report said “It is the conclusion of the FFM (fact-finding mission) that such a release can only be determined as the use of Sarin, as a chemical weapon”
The latest report has been circulated among OPCW members, however so far it has not been made public.
A joint investigation by the UN and OPCW will now investigate who was to blame for the attack.
Earlier US President Donald Trump had ordered a cruise missile strike on Shayrat air base after the US officials had concluded that the facility was where a Syrian Air Force jet had been armed with a Sarin-filled bomb.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had previously said that the incident had been fabricated.
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