Syria 1,300 killed in chemical attack

Western and regional countries called for UN chemical weapons investigators - who arrived in Damascus just three days ago - to be urgently despatched to the scene of one of the deadliest incidents of the two-year-old civil war.Images, including some taken by freelance photographers and supplied to Reuters, showed scores of bodies including of small children, laid out on the floor of a clinic with no visible signs of injuries.Reuters was not independently able to verify the cause of their death.

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