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UN Inspectors Reach Victims Of Apparent Gas Attack Despite Sniper Fire

by Zoe Schlanger

08.26.13 | 6:15 am

A U.N. team, that is scheduled to investigate an alleged chemical attack that killed hundreds last week in a Damascus suburb, leaves their hotel in a convoy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. An Associated P... A U.N. team, that is scheduled to investigate an alleged chemical attack that killed hundreds last week in a Damascus suburb, leaves their hotel in a convoy, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. An Associated Press photographer saw the U.N. members, wearing body armor, leaving in seven SUVs. It was not clear if the team headed to the suburb where the alleged attack occurred. MORE LESS

United Nations chemical weapons inspectors in Syria reached the Damascus suburb where an alleged chemical gas attack killed 100 last week after an official vehicle was struck by sniper fire earlier Monday, Reuters reported.

The inspector team took samples from victims in suburban Mouadamiya, according to Reuters.

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Zoe Schlanger Zoë Schlanger is Frontpage Editor at TPM. Zoë was a TPM intern in 2011, and prior to returning here she was editor in chief of NYU Local, the alternative independent student news site at NYU. Zoë has interned at places like the Nation, InsideClimate News, The Rachel Maddow Show and Gothamist. She can be reached at zoe@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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