This Is What It Was Like In The Aftermath Of The Alleged Chemical Attack In Syria
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A suspected chemical attack over the weekend killed at least 40 people in Douma, Syria, a rebel-held town near Damascus, according to local media and activists on the ground.

The Syrian government denied allegations that a poison gas was dropped on the area, contradicting reports from medics, activists, rescue workers, and leaders of Western nations.
Images circulating on social media showed the lifeless bodies of men, women, children, and infants foaming at the mouth — a telltale sign of a gas attack. The footage could not be independently confirmed.
An activist in Douma communicating with BuzzFeed News over WhatsApp in both Arabic and English described the “terrifying” sight.

"There is nothing I can say that can describe what happened," Abdullah Abo Humam told BuzzFeed News.
Humam said he was about 800 meters from where the attack took place on Friday, and wasn't able to enter a building that was hit until the following day.
"I saw someone at the entrance to the building. He told us that everyone inside the building was dead, and that his family was among them. He also told us that the chemical attack happened when he was outside the house, and he came back to find everyone dead," Humam said.
Syrian forces were still dropping barrel bombs.
"He was just standing there, unalarmed by all the other bombs coming down around his house. His whole family were dead so he didn’t even move, he was just standing there, not afraid, just in shock. He could have been hit by a barrel bomb at any minute, but he just didn’t move."
In videos widely shared by activists and journalists, first responders can barely move through the building Humam was in because of the number of bodies on the ground.
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“Their skin was blue, there was a foamy liquid outside their mouths, their eyes were fixed, and we also saw some families trying to get to the lower floors of the building from the upper floors to escape the smell,” Humam said.

“They didn’t know they were heading for death,” Humam said, because the bomb had fallen into the bottom floor of the building.

Munzer al-Awad contributed to this report.