(Previous Incident Code: R2969)

Between 12 and 23 civilians were killed and dozens more were wounded in a reported chloride attack on Hamouriya, local media reported. Media blamed both Russia and the Syrian regime for the strikes which reportedly included cluster and barrel bombs, and surface-surface missiles.

Twenty civilians were named, however, three additional victims were named as unidentified adult males. Sources reported as many as 30 cases of suffocation, with “dozens of martyrs, wounded and trapped under the rubble.”

Sources reported not only chloride gas, but the use of cluster munitions, barrel bombs and surface-surface missiles.

@SiegeWatch reported that there was a “chemical attack today after UN aid convoy left #EasternGhouta. A barrel bomb hit a residential area of Hamouriya & started emitting a chlorine-like gas. Several families rushed to a medical centre.”

@SiegeWatch added that there had been “Devastation today [March 5th] in Hamouriya , where an estimated 23 civilians were killed in Syrian government and Russian attacks using cluster munitions, barrel bombs, surface-surface missiles, and airstrikes”.

Syria Noor said the attack happened “in the middle of the night, [when] the regime targeted a town of Hamouriya with toxic gases believed to be chlorine gas, causing dozens of civilians to suffer suffocation.”

According to Syria Noor – who blamed the regime – the attack came “in the middle of the night”.