France called today for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over a suspected chemical attack in rebel-held northwestern Syria that killed at least 58 civilians.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault described the attack as "monstrous" and added: "I have called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council."
Ayrault said "chemical weapons" had been used in the attack and that it was "more proof of the savagery that the Syrian people have been subjected to for so many years."
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A hospital in the town where doctors were treating victims of the attack was also bombarded, an AFP correspondent said.
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