At least four people killed and 55 injured in chlorine gas and barrel bomb attack by ‘Assad’s forces’ in Aleppo
Regime helicopters said to have carried out indiscriminate attack that killed at least one woman and one child
AT least four people have been killed and 55 injured in a chlorine gas attack on war-torn Aleppo.
Barrel bombs were also used in the suspected regime strike on the Zubdiya and Seif al Dawla neighbourhoods of the Syrian city yesterday.
Helicopters are said to have carried out the indiscriminate bombing on the rebel-held areas.
A woman and child were among the dead, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Footage released by pro-opposition news service Aleppo Media Centre show desperately ill children struggling to breath.
It is the latest in a long list of suspected war crimes carried out by the regime.
Assad was accused of using toxic gas to wipe out rebel-supporting civilians in Aleppo in August 2012 in what President Obama infamously called a "red line".
However, the Syrian regime has also accused rebels of carrying out chemical attacks.
The use of chemicals in warfare is prohibited by the Geneva Protocol.
The bombing marks a step up in President Assad's attempts to completely capture Syria's sprawling second city.
Since the beginning of the conflict over five years ago it has been split into rebel-held and regime-controlled regions.
In July, troops loyal to the regime encircled the rebel-held east of the city, blocking aid getting to opposition fighters and hundreds of thousands of civilians.
The nearly month-long siege was broken last weekend when a rebel coalition of around two-dozen opposition groups mounted an offensive to recapture roads to the south.
The rebels' success was a humiliating defeat for Assad and his Russian allies who had been pounding the city with airstrikes for weeks.
But the crisis in Aleppo has seen essentials like water, food and medical aid become scarce.
The UN is calling for a 48 hour truce every week for aid to be delivered to the city.
Russia has said it will only allow a three-hour pause in hostilities every day.
As many as 100,000 of the civilians left in Aleppo are children.
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