Smoke was seen rising from the facilities
Assailants opened fire at a United Nations security team visiting the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria, an official said Wednesday, forcing it to retreat to its base and further delaying a fact-finding mission by outside experts to examine the claims.
Speaking at an emergency session of the OPCW at its headquarters in The Hague, Ahmet Uzumcu said the team had deployed to Douma to carry out a security assessment of the area ahead of the inspectors' visit.
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"The U.S. ambassador to the OPCW, Kenneth Ward, expressed Washington's concern that almost two weeks after the attack, inspectors would find tampering of evidence".
Western intelligence services have maintained they have evidence chemical weapons were used by Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad's forces.
FIRST footage from inside the Syrian town of Douma that was allegedly subject to a chemical weapons attack has emerged, apparently showing a missile shell at the site.
The Associated Press spoke to survivors, who said they encountered a powerful smell like chlorine.
Doctors and aid organizations on the ground reported strong smells of chlorine, and described symptoms consistent with exposure to sarin, the senior USA officials said.
The three allies on Saturday presented a draft Security Council resolution just hours after carrying out military strikes on three targets they said were linked to Syria's chemical weapons program.
Medical relief groups say dozens of men, women, and children were gassed to death in Douma on the night of April 7.
Her decision to authorise action without MPs' backing has been criticised by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who said she could "easily" have recalled Parliament or delayed her decision until MPs returned to Westminster from the Easter recess.
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Fisk says people in Douma were happy to see foreigners among them, and were willing to talk about other things.
The officials said they had videos and photos showing the remnants of at least two chlorine barrel bombs from the attacks with features consistent with chlorine barrel bombs from past attacks.
The US has previously said it fears Russian and Syrian forces have spent recent days destroying any remaining proof.
"We can not go back to a world where the use of chemical weapons becomes normalised..."
During the Commons debate, Mrs May told MPs: "Making it unlawful for Her Majesty's Government to undertake any such military intervention without a vote would seriously compromise our national security, our national interests, and the lives of British citizens at home and overseas".
When asked why the United States had not shared the evidence it used to justify the strikes, White said that "a lot of this has to do with intelligence".
Journalists were allowed access to Douma on Monday.
"I can guarantee that Russian Federation has not tampered with the site", Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the BBC.
Both Syria, which denies any chemical use, and Russian Federation, which provides military support to the Syrian government, have reacted angrily to the action. He also claimed they are trying to clean up the evidence before the investigative team arrives.
Mr Corbyn, who has warned of an escalation in a "proxy war" between the USA and Russian Federation, said he would only consider backing intervention in Syria with the support of the United Nations.
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