Britain’s delegation to the chemical weapons watchdog says its director has told a meeting that tests indicate that sarin or a similar toxin was used in an April 4 attack in Syria that killed nearly 90 people.
In a tweet Wednesday, the UK delegation said Ahmet Uzumcu, the director-general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, made the statement at the opening of a closed-door meeting of the OPCW’s executive council, which was discussing the attack.
Turkish and British tests also have concluded that sarin or a substance similar to the deadly nerve agent was used.
The United States blamed the chemical attack on the opposition-held town of Khan Sheikhoun on the ’government’ and fired nearly 60 missiles at a Syrian air base in response.
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