Syrian forces gassed 1,300: Oppn

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Beirut/Amman: Syria's opposition accused President Bashar al-Ass­ad's forces of gas­sing hundreds of people – by one report as many as 1,300 – on Wednesday in what would, if confirmed, be the world’s worst chemical weapons attack in decades.
Western countries cal­led for UN chemical weapons investigators – who arrived in Damascus three days ago – to be urgently dispatched to the scene of one of the deadliest incidents of the two-year-old civil war.
Images showed scores of bodies, including that of small children, laid out on the floor of a clinic with no visible signs of injuries. The Syrian government denied that it had used chemical arms.
George Sabra, one of the leading opponents of Assad, said the death toll was 1,300 in the gas attack on the suburbs east of Damascus. The rebel Syrian Nati­o­nal Coalition said 650 people had been killed.