DHAKA: A report by United Nations inspectors probing a chemical weapons attack in Syria will ‘probably’ be published on Monday, French foreign minister Laurent Fabius said on Thursday.

‘It will say that there was a chemical massacre,’ he told French radio, reports The Straits Times.

The inspectors left Syria on August 31 after collecting samples as part of their probe into an August 21 chemical weapons attack in a suburb of the Syrian capital.

The United States and its allies have said the regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad carried out the attack, while Damascus and its ally Russia have said rebels were responsible.

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