Daesh uses chemical weapons against civilians in Nineveh

The Daesh terrorist used chemical weapons in an attack against the residents of al-Osajah Village in Nineveh Province on Sunday, killing at least 17 people.

The district governor of Mosul Hussein Ali Hajem told the Sputnik Arabic that the Daesh chemical attack on al-Osajah village killed 17 civilians, mostly women and children.

He said that the missiles fired at the residential areas in the village most likely included chlorine gas which suffocated the civilians.

Elsewhere, Hajem said that the Daesh's indiscriminate attacks against a number of villages in Qayara, southern Mosul, in the past 24 hours killed three civilians and injured four others.

In May, an intergovernmental organization warned of the “extremely worrying” signs that Takfiri Daesh terrorist group could be developing chemical weapons of its own.

Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Ahmet Uzumcu said that the Takfiri terrorist group might have already used them both in Iraq and Syria.

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