Deadly toxic gas attack kills 130 in Syria

Thursday, August 22, 2013

BEIRUT -- The images showed lifeless children -- wrapped in simple white cloths, their pale faces unmarked by any wound -- lined up shoulder to shoulder in a vivid demonstration of an attack Wednesday in which activists say the Syrian regime killed at least 130 people with toxic gas.

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