Activists said that around thirty pro-Assad soldiers were killed on Saturday during clashes with rebels in Morek north of Hama. The town of Kafr Zeita came under a series of poison gas attacks, which left around 200 casualties, including women and children. The first attack occurred on April 11, 2014, when regime’s helicopters dropped barrel bombs containing toxic chlorine gas, injuring around 100 people, mostly women and children. A similar attack occurred the next day, which caused around 50 cases of asphyxiation among the civilians, while a man and his daughter were killed by the shrapnel of the barrel bomb. The third chlorine attack occurred on April 16, causing around ten civilian casualties, including women and children. Regime forces renewed gas attacks on Friday, causing around 50 asphyxiation cases among civilians suffered from suffocation, according to reports received from the field hospital in Kafr Zeita. (Source: Smart News)