Alleged Chemical Attack, August 10, 2016

August 10, 2016 - four civilians were reportedly killed by chlorine dropped "alongside" barrel bombs, on "the Zubdiya neighborhood of rebel-held Aleppo" according to "Hamza Khatib, the manager of Al Quds hospital in Aleppo," which apparently was not reduced to rubble in April. Also, "The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a war monitor, said helicopters dropped explosive barrels on the neighborhoods of Seif al Dawla and Zubdiya, leading to the death of a woman and her child from suffocation."
 * Suspected gas attack on Aleppo causes deaths, injuries: hospital, rescuers Reuters, August 10, 2016, 7:23 pm EDT
 * Hamza Khatib, the manager of Al Quds hospital in Aleppo, told a Reuters photographer the hospital had recorded four deaths from gas poisoning and 55 injuries. Seven people were still receiving hospital treatment.


 * Khatib said he was preserving pieces of patients clothing and fragments from the barrel bombs as evidence for analysis.


 * "verified" footage on BBC website at http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/37051861. Opening scene shows a boy taking his T-shirt off at the entrance, then remembering to cough as he walks into the emergency room. None of the victims look cyanosed. No eye or skin irritation is noticeable.

The VDC lists 3 killed - a woman and 2 boys from Zebdieh, all unidentified - woman's notes: She and her two children as a result of bombing an explosive barrel containing chlorine gas