‘ISIL attacks Sinjar with chemical arms’
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The image grab shows a crude roadside bomb filled with toxic chlorine gas being detonated by bomb disposal teams at an undisclosed location in Iraq.
The ISIL Takfiri terrorist group has launched chemical attacks on Iraq’s Kurdish town of Sinjar, wounding dozens of people, authorities say.
According to a Friday statement released by the Security Council of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), ISIL terrorists launched rockets equipped with chemical warheads on an area south of the town on Thursday, Arabic-language al-Sumeria news website reported.
The statement added that although no one were killed in the attacks, dozens of civilians and Peshmerga forces were admitted with symptoms including vomiting, dizziness and difficulty in breathing.
“If confirmed, this will be the eighth ISIL (Daesh) weaponized chemical attack against Peshmerga. ISIL tactics continue to become more sophisticated,” warned the council.
On February 18, Kurdish authorities reported a similar attack launched by ISIL on Sinjar, in which at least 30 Peshmerga forces sustained similar injuries.
According to local medical sources, the symptoms indicate the terrorists might have used chlorine, a choking agent banned under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention.
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