Syria Nerve Gas Attack kills 1,300

Syria's darkest hour: Hundreds of children's bodies piled high after nerve gas attack near Damascus leaves up to 1,300 dead

• Activists claim 1,300 killed in government rocket strike on residential area
• If true, it would represent the worst known use of chemical weapons since  Saddam Hussein gassed thousands of Kurds in the town of Halabja in 1988
  
• Chemical warheads hit suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar
• They hit just before dawn as families lay sleeping
• A UN team is in Syria to probe chemical weapons use by President Assad
• Many countries have called for an immediate investigation
• French Foreign Minister has called the attack an 'unprecedented atrocity'
• William Hague said hopes attack will 'wake up some' who support Assad
• Claims come as refugees flood into Iraqi Kurdistan

Caution: lots of dead bodies including children are shown.

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