A fact-finding mission by the UN's chemical watchdog concluded that sarin was used as a chemical weapon in the April 4th attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhun, a confidential report said Thursday (June 29th).
The findings by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will now be taken up by a joint UN-OPCW panel to determine whether Syrian regime forces were behind the attack, AFP reported.
"Based on its work, the fact-finding mission (FFM) is able to conclude that a large number of people, some of whom died, were exposed to sarin or a sarin-like substance," said the report.
"The release that caused this exposure was most likely initiated at the site where there is now a crater in the road," it said. "It is the conclusion of the FFM that such a release can only be determined as the use of sarin, as a chemical weapon."
