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'Neurotoxic' attack in Syria

Medecins Sans Frontieres says doctors have treated about 3,600 patients in Syria with 'neurotoxic symptoms' and that 355 of them died. It suggests there are strong indications that chemical weapons have been used.

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Syrian State TV: Soldiers discover 'chemical agents'

Syrian state television is reporting that government soldiers found chemical agents in rebel tunnels in the Damascus suburbs of Jobar this morning. The government run station quoted a "news source" as saying:

In some cases, soldiers are suffocating while entering Jobar. Ambulances came to rescue the people who were suffocating in Jobar.

Activists say more than a thousand people were killed in a chemical attack in Jobar on Wednesday morning.

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