UN chemical weapons observers kidnapped in Syria

27 May 2014 17:45 | 634

Syria's Foreign Ministry says 11 people, including six members of a UN fact-finding mission, have been abducted by armed groups in central Syria SIA reports quoting the Guardian.

The ministry says the abductions occurred in the countryside around Hama in central Syria on Tuesday, as the team tried to visit a town where chlorine gas attacks have recently been reported.

"Two cars were seized by terrorist groups carrying 11 people - five of them Syrian drivers and six from the fact-finding mission," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SANA news agency.

The statement blamed rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad, accusing them of committing "terrorist crimes" against the UN staff and the UN Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.

The organisation, which monitors the implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention and oversees the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons, sent a team to Syria this month to investigate claims that chlorine has been used in the region of Hama

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