Moscow on Monday said reports of an alleged chemical attack on Syria’s rebel-held Eastern Ghouta were planted “bogus stories” and insisted armed groups attacked by regime forces there were terrorist allies. “There are already bogus stories in the media that yesterday chlorine was used in Eastern Ghouta, citing an anonymous individual living in the US,” Foreign Minister Sergei lavrov said at a press-conference.
A child died and at least 13 other people suffered breathing difficulties in a village in the Eastern Ghouta region after the suspected chemical attack yesterday, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and a medic who treated those affected. Eastern Ghouta has been under one of the most ferocious assaults of Syria’s civil war in recent days.