TASS, February 17. Six residents of the village of El-Msyna in the vicinity of the city of Afrin (65 km from Aleppo) in the north of Syria suffered from the use of shells with poison gas. As the director of the local hospital Joan Mohammed told the Syrian SANA agency, two of them are still in serious condition.

"In four others, the state of health has stabilized," he pointed out, "We are trying to establish now what poison gas was used in the shelling."

The Kurdish agency Firat reports that doctors at the Afrina hospital are inclined to believe that the Turkish military and the "Syrian Free Army" formations fighting on their side used chlorine on Friday.

Since January 20, when Ankara launched Operation Olive Branch against the forces of the People's Self-Defense Forces (SNA), Kurdish sources have repeatedly accused the Turkish troops of using napalm, but information about the use of poisonous substances was first reported.

SANA notes that dozens of people became victims of artillery bombardments and bombardments in Africa, most of them women and children.

According to the Turkish General Staff, the armed forces succeeded in destroying over 1550 terrorists since January 20, to which SNA fighters are ranked in Ankara.

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