Sarin gas attack-linked Syria air base to be visited by UN investigators

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Sarin gas attack-linked Syria air base to be visited by UN investigators
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UN team will visit Syria's Shayrat airfield, which was targeted by US after Khan Sheikhun sarin gas attack

US fired cruise missiles at Syria's Shayrat airfield in April (AFP)

Wednesday 11 October 2017 23:52 UTC

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Thursday 12 October 2017 0:37 UTC

UN investigators will this week travel to an air base in Syria that the United States and its allies say was used to launch a sarin gas attack on Khan Sheikhun, diplomats told AFP on Wednesday.

The trip to the Shayrat airfield comes just weeks before the release of a much-awaited report on the Khan Sheikhun attack that the West and a UN commission have said was carried out by President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

The team from the joint UN-OPCW (Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ) probe, known as the JIM, left on Monday for Damascus and were to go to the Shayrat airfield, said a Security Council diplomat, who asked not to be identified.

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