Iraqi victims suffer ‘ISIS chemical attacks’

The skin on five-year-old Doaa’s legs, arms and neck is blackened and hard even weeks after the attack. She is still in severe pain and tries not to touch anything or move too much.


Doaa was playing in the courtyard when a rocket fired by ISIS landed and exploded in the neighbor’s garden, emitting a toxic gas, her father Abdallah Sultan and other residents said.

Around a month after the blast, a strong burning smell still pervades the air and stings the nose. The wall next door is black and all the plants in a small vegetable patch have died. Part of the rocket, which the families avoid touching, is left on the ground. The rest has been removed by rescue workers.

“We don’t know what the substance in the warhead was. All we know is that it made Doaa break out in blisters all over her body, and she’s not got better,” 33-year-old Sultan said.

She was a victim of what appears to have been the fourth chemical weapons attack launched by ISIS during September and October against civilians in the town of Qayyara in northern Iraq. Rights workers have so far documented at least three others............http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/11/12/ISIS-victims-suffer-as-evidence-of-chemical-attacks-grows.html
12/11/16
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