A suspected chemical weapons attack that left more than 70 dead in a rebel-held town shows war crimes continue in Syria, UN chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday. "The horrific events of yesterday demonstrate unfortunately that war crimes are going on in Syria [and that] international humanitarian law is being violated frequently," Guterres said as he went into a Syria aid conference in Brussels. At least 72 civilians including 20 children died in a suspected chemical attack on Tuesday in the rebel-held Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun in Idlib province in the northwest. Moscow said on Wednesday that the Syrian airstrike had hit a "terrorist warehouse" containing "toxic substances". "According to the objective data of the Russian airspace control, Syrian aviation struck a large terrorist warehouse near Khan Sheikhun," the Russian defence ministry said in a statement. It housed "a warehouse making bombs, with toxic substances", said the ministry, without stating if the strike was deli...
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