Horrific moment children struggle to breath after Syrian government helicopters ‘drop chlorine’ on Aleppo

THIS is the horrific moment children struggling to breathe had to be treated after the Syrian government apparently dropped chlorine bombs on Aleppo.

Volunteer emergency workers say 80 people were injured in the chemical attack today.

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Residents in Aleppo had to washed down with water after the chlorine was dropped

The Syrian Civil Defence claimed the country's government dropped barrel bombs containing the chemical on the Sukari neighbourhood in eastern Aleppo.

The government has denied previous accusations it used chemical weapons during the five-year civil war but a UN-led investigation in August found they had used chlorine on at least two occasions.

The Civil Defence said on its Facebook page that 80 people had suffocated but there were no deaths.

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They posted harrowing footage showing wheezing children in hospital being doused in water using oxygen masks to breathe.

The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks Syrian violence using sources on the ground, said medical sources had reported 70 cases of suffocation.

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Ibrahem Alhaj, a Syrian Civil Defence rescue worker, said he had reached the scene of the attack shortly after a helicopter dropped barrels containing what he said were four chlorine cylinders.

Russia, an ally of the Syrian government, has accused rebels of firing shells containing "toxic gas" at government-held areas in Aleppo.

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The city has been one of the hardest hit by escalating violence in recent months after the collapse of a partial truce brokered by the US and Russia in February.

Chlorine is a common industrial chemical, but its use in weapons is banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention.

The Syrian conflict has killed more than 250,000 people and forced more than 11 million from their homes.

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