By Anthony Deutsch and Dominic Evans AMSTERDAM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A
team of international experts investigating the alleged use of chlorine bombs in
Syria came under attack on Tuesday but all members of the
team were safe and returning to base, the Organisation for the Prohibition of
Chemical ******* said.
Syria accused rebel fighters of abducting the members of the joint OPCW/U.N. fact-finding team, who had traveled to the central province of Hama to investigate allegations of illegal chlorine attacks by government forces. The
OPCW said "a convoy of
OPCW inspectors and United Nations staff that was traveling to a site of an alleged chlorine gas attack" when it came it came under attack. President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces have been battling rebels trying to unseat him for more than three years, agreed last year to hand over Syria's entire
Chemical ******* stockpile after hundreds of people were killed in a sarin gas attack near Damascus.
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Chemical ******* team in Syria attacked but safe: OPCW