By Ross Ibbetson For Mailonline and Afp
Published: 19:05 GMT, 1 March 2019 | Updated: 14:12 GMT, 2 March 2019
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Chlorine gas was used in an attack on a Syrian town that left dozens dead in 2018, a chemical weapons watchdog said.
The United States condemned President Bashar al-Assad over the suspected use of poison gas on the housing block in Douma in April.
Friday's report was swiftly batted away by Syria's main ally Russia, after the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released their findings.
The Hague-based watchdog said in a statement that there were 'reasonable grounds that the use of a toxic chemical as a weapon has taken place on 7 April 2018.
People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria
Douma in the middle of April 2018 after the Syrian army declared that all anti-regime forces had left following a blistering two month offensive on the rebel enclave
President Bashar al-Assad delivering a speech at a meeting for the heads of local councils in the capital Damscus last month
'This toxic chemical contained reactive chlorine.'
The findings confirmed an interim report released last July, in which local sources quoted by the OPCW said at least 43 people were killed in the attack.
The watchdog said it found no evidence of the
