Archive for the ‘Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT)’ Category
Sudan: Credible evidence of the use of chemical weapons to kill and maim hundreds of civilians including children in Darfur revealed.
Thursday, September 29th, 2016“….Using satellite imagery, more than 200 in-depth interviews with survivors and expert analysis of dozens of appalling images showing babies and young children with terrible injuries, the investigation indicates that at least 30 likely chemical attacks have taken place in the Jebel Marra area of Darfur since January 2016. The most recent was on 9 September 2016. The scale and brutality of these attacks is hard to put into words. The images and videos we have seen in the course of our research are truly shocking; in one a young child is screaming with pain before dying; many photos show young children covered in lesions and blisters. Some were unable to breath and vomiting blood,” said Tirana Hassan, Amnesty International’s Director of Crisis Research…..”
More than 80 people were suffering severe breathing difficulties in Syria’s embattled city of Aleppo after an alleged chemical attack
Wednesday, September 7th, 2016At least 35 people have fallen ill by inhaling gas leaking from a tank of a Diammonium phosphate (DAP) fertilizer factory in Bangladesh
Thursday, August 25th, 2016
Dr Abdel Aziz Bareeh, who works in Saraqeb: 2 barrels of chlorine gas were dropped on the town Monday. “We know it’s chlorine because we were hit by it in the past and we are familiar with its odor and symptoms….We have 28 confirmed cases, mostly women and children.”
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2016CNN: “….A photographer who took photos of the injured for the White Helmets said victims were suffering symptoms such as watering eyes, spasms, sweating, coughing and difficulty breathing…..”
Saraqeb is near the Turkish border between Latakia and Aleppo on the map.