A convoy of vehicles carrying weapons inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has come under attack in Syria, according to the latest reports.
The team were travelling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack, in the opposition held Kafr Zita in the Hama province, when they reportedly came under attack from a roadside bomb. The OPCW has stated that “all team members are safe and well”.
The Syrian government claimed that some of the inspectors had been kidnapped, a report that has yet to be verified. State news agency Sana'a cited the government as saying,
The team were travelling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack, in the opposition held Kafr Zita in the Hama province, when they reportedly came under attack from a roadside bomb. The OPCW has stated that “all team members are safe and well”.
The Syrian government claimed that some of the inspectors had been kidnapped, a report that has yet to be verified. State news agency Sana'a cited the government as saying,
“The government presents these facts to the director-general of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and stresses again that these terrorist groups are the ones undermining the fact-finding mission and commit terrorist crimes against those who work with the United Nations and OPCW”.However the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said in a statement,
“The mission had not left areas outside regime control where they could have been kidnapped [by rebels]... The roadside bomb exploded near Taybet al-Imam, which is controlled by regime forces”.See more from the Financial Times here.