On Saturday 1 October 2016 at approximately 19:30, a government forces helicopter dropped two barrel bombs loaded with cylinders containing a poison gas on the agricultural lands in northern Kafr Zita city in Hama governorate. What further verified the incident was the toll of injuries that mounted to 20 people who exhibited symptoms of suffocation and breathing difficulties.
SNHR contacted a number of residents, civil defense members, and local media activists who witnessed the incident and told the Network of the symptoms they saw on the injured such as sever coughing, breathing difficulties, burning eyes, and vomiting which was also confirmed by the pictures and videos we received and have a copies of in addition to pictures that show the remnants of the bombardment and the cylinders loaded with the gas which were found in the incident location.