- Disturbing photos show the aftermath of the deadly chemical weapons unleashed on a suburb
- Bodies of men, women and children are piled high in makeshift morgues as those who escaped fight for their lives
- Activists claim that government forces were firing rockets at neighbourhoods on eastern outskirts of Damascus
- Devastating attack that killed hundreds prompts protests and vigils from around the world
- President Bashar Assad's government denies using rockets to release fatal fumes over suburb
- U.S., Britain and France demand a U.N. team should be allowed to inspect chemical attack site
- U.N. team already in Syria to investigate previous attacks but need government permission to examine new site
- U.N. Security Council have not demanded new investigation into site but said 'clarity' into attack was needed
- Diplomats claim U.N.'s statement about attack was watered down to accommodate Russia and China's objections
- Death toll rising, opposition activists claim as '6,000 people suffer breathing problems after attacks'
These are the disturbing images of the Damascus suburb that has been left a ghost town after 1,300 of its residents were gassed as they slept in their beds yesterday.
A street that was hit by a gas attack in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma is completely deserted after yesterday's attack
A dead dog is seen at a site near to where the chemical weapons were unleashed on civilians as they slept in their beds
Men wearing masks walk through the empty streets of Ain Tarma. Syria's opposition accused government forces of gassing hundreds of people on Wednesday
Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a nerve gas attack in one of the worst reported use of poison gas in the two-year-old civil war
Children, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, breathe through oxygen masks in the Damascus suburb of Saqba. Rockets released deadly fumes over rebel-held Damascus suburbs
A man, affected by what activists say is nerve gas, is treated in the Damascus suburbs of Jesreen
These horrendous pictures were provided by citizen journalists in Syria, and shows children being treated in makeshift hospitals
A town that was attacked while it slept: A young survivor of the alleged gas attack weeps as he takes shelter inside a mosque
This picture shows the dead bodies of three Syrian children after the alleged poison gas attack - what rebels claim is the doing of President Assad's government
The harrowing images of hundreds of dead children and adults, victims of what rebels claim was a poison gas attack by Assad's government, will test the diplomatic patience of the West to the limit
Makeshift morgue: The activists said hundreds of people, including women and children, were killed in a nerve gas attack
An undignified end: This image grab taken from a video uploaded on YouTube allegedly shows Syrians covering a mass grave containing bodies of victims of the attack. The atrocity seems all too familiar to the children and young men standing around the grave site
Grim toll: The fighting in Syria's bloody two-year civil war has killed an estimated 100,000 people so far
Syrian women hold candles and placards during a vigil against the chemical weapons attack on Damascus, in front the United Nations headquarters in Beirut
Lebanese and Syrian women peacefully protest against the chemical weapons in Beirut, Lebanon. The toxic gas attack that is thought to have killed more than 1,300 people
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