(UTV|COLOMBO) – The United Nations (UN) Security Team has come under fire in Syria while doing reconnaissance for inspectors to visit sites of a suspected chemical weapons attack, with officials saying it is no longer clear when the inspectors will be able to go in.
The inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are in Syria to investigate an April 07 incident in which Western countries and rescue workers say scores of civilians were gassed to death by Government forces.
OPCW Director-General Ahmet Uzumcu said the United Nations Department of Safety and Security (UNDSS) had decided to carry out reconnaissance at two sites in the town of Douma before the inspectors would visit them.
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