What is the nerve gas Sarin? And what does it do?

- The world is shocked by the heartbreaking images from Syria of a deadly air strike by Russian and Syrian fighters. Dozens of children and adults were taking death. Possibly the bloody attack uses the highly toxic nerve gas Sarin. What exactly is this type of nerve gas? And what it does to the victims?

Sarin is 500 times stronger than cyanide that the Nazis used gas chambers to kill millions of people. The nerve agent was never used on the battlefields. Both the Germans and the Allies possessed Sarin, making sure both sides shuddered into it. The gas is original developed as a pesticide. The former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein began in 1984 with the production of the gas. In 1995, the government acknowledged that they had produced 790 tons of sarin.

The Syrian government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons. Tuesday she make that a sarin attack is no. But according to a local doctor is indeed used the poisonous gas. The doctor says in a video message (note: graphic images) that on the victims, including many children, they typically phenomena. Thus victims severely constricted pupils, they exhibit symptoms of suffocation and they start to foam at the mouth.

By inhalation or absorption through the skin, the gas can paralyze the nervous system. Inhalation of large amounts of Sarin paralyzes the muscles around the lungs, causing victims drown in their own mucus. Even a small amount of the odorless, colorless and tasteless Sarin can be fatal. Even if a victim survives exposure to Sarin, the nerve can cause permanent damage to the lungs, eyes or nervous system.

7 Sept 2016: 'Chlorine came out of the air in drums'

16 Sept. 2016: 'Syrian government chlorine used '

22 Oct 2016: A confidential investigation report of the United Nations and the Organization would prove for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Syrian government has committed to a third poison gas attack.

30 Oct 2016: report Syrian state media reported that rebels have fired poison gas to parts of the city of Aleppo belonging to government forces in hands.

February 13, 2017: Human Rights Watch (HRW) wrote in a report, in turn, that the Syrian army used chemical weapons during the battle of Aleppo in parts of the city where the rebels then were still. There would be shed at least eight occasions between November 17 and December 13 bombs with chlorine.

Sarin was first made by scientists from the Nazis in the 30s.

The most notorious attack with the nerve gas took place in March 1988 in northern Iraq. In the village of Halabja killed 5,000 Kurds when the Iraqi army bombarded them with Sarin, mustard gas and possibly the nerve agent VX. The attack wounded 65. 000 Kurds.

Sarin is 500 times stronger than cyanide that the Nazis used gas chambers to kill millions of people. The nerve agent was never used on the battlefields. Both the Germans and the Allies possessed Sarin, making sure both sides shuddered into it.

The former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein began in 1984 with the production of the gas. In 1995, the government acknowledged that they had produced 790 tons of sarin.