At least 5 people were killed, one family, in chlorine gas bombs on eastern Syrian town of Sarmin in Idlib province late Monday, local activists reported.
Medics told Zaman al-Wasl that 75 suffocation cases were recorded amid lack of Ambulatory materials and Oxygen in the field hospital.
Bashar al-Assad's forces have been repeatedly used chemical weapons during the war in Syria. The largest known attack used sarin, a much deadlier nerve agent, on civilians in the rebel-held area of eastern Ghouta on August 21 2013, leading to the deaths of 1429 people.
Under the terms of a deal struck last year by the US and the Syrian regime's principal ally, Russia, Assad agreed to give up all of his chemical stockpile.
Chlorine is a so-called dual-use chemical and was not among the chemical agents declared by Assad under the deal.
Chlorine gas - used extensively in the First World War - attacks mucus membranes and can kill in high concentrations.
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