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Intel report on Syria alleges new incendiary attack

Posted at 5:54 PM, Aug 30, 2013
and last updated 2013-08-31 14:23:50-04

UPDATE: Obama says U.S. should take military action against Syria

(CNN) -- Evidence of another deadly attack in Syria has surfaced, this one with an incendiary agent, opposition activists said Friday.

Seven people died and dozens were wounded Monday in the attack on a school in northern Syria, they said.

The allegation comes as U.S. President Barack Obama considers military action against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after what U.S. officials and chemical weapons experts say was a chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of Damascus on August 21.

Videos that activists said had been shot in the Urum Al-Kubra village of Aleppo province after the Monday attack show people with severe burns, but no other external injuries.