GAS BLITZ KIDS CHOKE HORROR
SUFFOCATING children were among more than 100 people killed in a toxic gas attack in Syria.
Choking victims foamed at the mouth and vomited after bomb blasts rocked the rebel-held Syrian region of Idlib.
Rescue workers hosed down screaming semi-naked youngsters left writhing in pain on the floor.
Distraught parents carried tiny bodies from the carnage as corpses wrapped in blankets lay in lines on the ground.
At least 11 of the dead were below the age of eight. Theresa May last night called for an investigation into a suspected chemical weapons attack.
There were claims it was carried out by the Assad regime with Russian backing. The Prime Minister said: “If proven, this will be further evidence of the barbarism of the Syrian regime.”
Activist Hussein Sirjawi, who visited a makeshift medical point, saw dozens of children gasping for air. He said: “Some had saliva coming from their ® mouths and noses, others were totally oblivious to the chaos around them.”
A hospital where victims were being treated was later hit by a rocket strike.
The strikes on the town of Khan Sheikhoun, suspected to have involved sarin and chlorine, injured more than 400 people.
Revenge
The raid was at first suspected to be Russia’s revenge for Monday’s deadly St Petersburg terror attack that killed 14.
But Russia’s defence ministry said: “Russian military aircraft carried out no air strikes near Khan Sheikhoun.”
The Syrian military also denied using chemical weapons, dismissing the accounts as rebel propaganda.
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said last night: “Bombing your own civilians with chemical weapons is unquestionably a war crime.”