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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/survivors-of-suspected-gas-attack-in-syria-describe-horrors-they-say-will-haunt-them-forever/2013/08/28/98985d5a-102c-11e3-a2b3-5e107edf9897_story.html

Survivors of Syrian Gas Attack Describe Horrors

(AP-Washington Post) Ammar, 30, miraculously survived the chemical attack on Moadamiyeh, where 80 people were killed. Around 5 a.m. he heard screaming on the street below his apartment. Once outside, he saw a gas with a faint green color. It "stung my eyes like needles." Ammar woke up at a makeshift hospital where he spent five days getting water, oxygen and injections of atropine. "I keep seeing the people who died, the scenes from the hospital of people twitching and foaming. I can never forget that."

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