SYRIA GAS ATTACK: ACTIVIST GROUPS BLAME PRESIDENT BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Even though there have been conflicting reports about the death  following Tuesday’s  suspected chemical attack in northern Syria, multiple activist groups  according to reports from the CNN have said dozens of people, including at least ten children, have been killed and more than 200 injured in the attack.

It would be recalled that reports had it that Airstrikes hit the city of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday, giving off a "poisonous gas," according to Anas al-Diab, an activist with the Aleppo Media Center.

The casualties reportedly came as a result of asphyxiation caused by exposure to an unknown gas or chemical agent.

Five minutes later, three more strikes hit the same city center location but did not result in any gas, al-Diab added.

Videos circulating on social media purporting to be from the scene show people, including children, who appear unresponsive; others are seen struggling to breathe or wearing oxygen masks.

According to the  activists,  while doctors are attempting to evacuate the wounded to Turkey, the Aleppo Media Center later reported that several people were injured when an airstrike hit near a hospital in Khan Sheikhoun where victims from the earlier apparent gas attack were being treated.

There were no deaths reported from the airstrike near the hospital.

The nature of the substance used in the Tuesday attack has not been confirmed, and it is unclear if the planes involved were Syrian.

Idlib province is largely controlled by an alliance of Syrian rebel forces and is regularly targeted in airstrikes by the Syrian government and its ally, Russia.

Activist al-Diab said the death toll was at least 67, while activist group Idlib Media Center reported that dozens were killed. Elsewhere the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 58 were dead, including ten children.

In a tweet the Syrian White Helmets suggested 50 were killed and more than 300 injured.

The High Negotiations Committee, an umbrella opposition group, claimed the death toll could be as high as 100 with up to 400 injured.

Activist groups have blamed the Syrian regime of President Bashar al-Assad for the attack.

The Syrian Coalition, an umbrella opposition group, referred to the attack in a Twitter post as a "crime similar to that in Eastern Ghouta in 2013 that the international community allowed to pass without accountability or punishment."

The tweet was referring to a 2013 chemical attack on a Damascus suburb blamed on the Syrian regime.