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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) declared Friday that it found no evidence of the use of nerve gas during the attack on the Duma last April but found traces containing chlorine.
A team of investigators from the Hague-based organization took about 100 samples from seven Duma sites after successfully reaching the city, two weeks after the April 7 attack.
"The results show that no trace element or residual phosphorus was found," he says in a preliminary report.
However, the report adds that "in addition to the remains of explosives found on several components containing chlorine".
The report goes on to say that "the work to arrive at an interpretation of these results is still in progress". What's needed is to determine if the traces found are a reference to an active source of chlorine, which is not normally found in nature.
Doctors and doctors reported that about 40 people were killed in the attack, most in a building that fell on the roof of a cylinder.
The team of investigators is still working "to locate the cylinder" and "its source," according to the report.
Western countries accuse the Syrian regime of aggression, prompting Washington, Paris and London to impose military positions on the regime, which also contributes to intensifying diplomatic tensions with Moscow.
The team of investigators was able to visit the scene of the attack only on April 21, while it was arriving in Syria on the 14th of the same month.
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