Last Updated Apr 21, 2018 8:59 AM EDT
MOSCOW — Chemical weapons inspectors have left for Syria’s Douma, the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack, Russia’s Foreign Ministry says.
The team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons — OPCW — left Damascus Douma on Saturday, the ministry said, BBC News reports.
Security concerns this week had been keeping international experts from inspecting the site of the suspected chemical attack that led to Western airstrikes against the Syrian government last weekend, CBS News’ Seth Doane reported. Doane and his team were allowed access to the site the weapons experts have been trying to reach.
An advance security team from the United Nations withdrew from Douma after coming under small arms fire on Tuesday at one of the sites destined for inspection. There was also a small explosion at the site. That further delayed the international weapons inspectors, who arrived in Damascus last weekend to try to determine what happened on April 7.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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