Syria: Syrian government and rebels blame each other for poison gas attack in a village
Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday that poison gas had been used in a central village, blaming each other for an attack that reportedly injured scores of people.
Details of the attack Friday in Kfar Zeita, a village in Hama province some 200 kilometres north of Damascus, remained sketchy Saturday night.
But online videos posted by rebel activists showed pale-faced men, women and children gasping for breath at a field hospital, suggesting an affliction by some kind of poison in a conflict that’s seen hundreds killed by chemical weapons.