{"id":1566,"date":"2016-09-09T02:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/?p=1566"},"modified":"2017-04-22T07:02:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T23:02:20","slug":"aleppo-chlorine-attack-captured-in-pictures-and-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/aleppo-chlorine-attack-captured-in-pictures-and-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Aleppo: Chlorine attack captured in pictures and video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>\u2018Children were convulsing\u2019 say staff on the ground<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Children walk the streets, using their hands to mask their mouths.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The pictures below show the devastation of this week\u2019s bombardment on Aleppo, with the area around Sukkari reduced to rubble and its residents choking on chlorine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In the second chlorine attack to hit the city, there were reports of barrel bombs being dropped by helicopters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Speaking from the Bustan Al-Qasr neighbourhood, nicknamed \u201cthe Passage of Death\u201d after being targeted by snipers, Islamic Relief\u2019s media officer, Tahir Al Sabsabi, said: \u201cSome of these barrels contained a chlorine solution.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe smell was very strong and overpowering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cChildren were convulsing because they had breathed in the chlorine gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cThe civil defence rescuers suffered a lot and had to be taken to hospital and medical centres because of the chlorine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xn_TjsE3xR4?feature=oembed\" width=\"605\" height=\"340\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It\u2019s understood that more than 100 people were injured in the attack, with reports that at least one man had died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Rescuers and medical staff have been relying on basic equipment to save lives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Islamic Relief is working on the ground deep inside Syria since 2012 and also in neighbouring countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We\u2019ve reached over 6.5 million Syrians so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">More pictures click here &#8212;&gt;<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamic-relief.org\/aleppo-chlorine-attack-captured-in-pictures-and-video\/\">http:\/\/www.islamic-relief.org\/aleppo-chlorine-atta&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Children were convulsing\u2019 say staff on the ground Children walk the streets, using their hands to mask their mouths. The pictures below show the devastation of this week\u2019s bombardment on Aleppo, with the area around Sukkari reduced to rubble and its residents choking on chlorine. In the second chlorine attack to hit the city, there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-worldwide","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1568,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566\/revisions\/1568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islamic-relief.org.my\/sandbox_www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}