NEWS CENTER - Swedish Doctor Abbas Mansouran stated that they detected the use of chemical weapons and white phosphorus in the Turkish attack against North and East Syria.
Dr. Abbas Mansouran who went to Rojava as a volunteer for medical support, shared the results of his analysis on the people who got hurt in the Turkish attacks on October 13.
Dr. Mansouran listed his findings as follows:
1- Most of the injured was civillians.
2- Most of the patients I visited told that they were injured by unmanned aerial vehicles in different places.
3- Most of the patients mentioned two separate air strikes, one after another.
4- Wounds are apparently black; it consisted of deep, different sizes and numerous spots.
5- Victims were covered with a cool smell.
6- Stains formed by fragments of bombs entering the skin looked like droplets.
7- Some of the injured had difficulty breathing
8- The traces of smoke seen on the bodies resembled coal dust.
9- At least 6 patients had severe eye burns.
10- Hair and eyebrows were not burned, but some deep wound spots of different sizes were remarkable.
11- There was no sign that the injuries were caused by an external particle.
12- Most of the patients developed dangerous infections caused by highly resistant super bacteria such as Pseudonmonas spp, E.coli and MRSA.
13- Some of the victims had lost their arms or legs.
14- Peripheral nerve symptoms were observed in all of the victims who were affected by neurotoxicity, and even when I touched their unburned skin, they became irritated and felt pain.
15- Some of the victims had lost their hearing.
16- Most of the patients had symptoms of an explosion of landmines, but there was no evidence of shrapnel scarring.
17- Some of the wounded had a need for catheterization in the abdominal, lung and urinary tracts.
18- About 30 of the hundreds of wounded I have seen had the above mentioned symptoms.