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Chemical Weapons Inspectors Finish Their Trip To Syria's Douma

Investigators finished gathering samples from the town where a suspected chemical weapons attack occurred. The team suffered a few delays and Russia "may have tampered" with the site.
A man walks down a street in war-torn Douma on April 20, days after the suspected chemical attack.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Friday that its team of investigators has finished a fact-finding mission in the Syrian town of Douma, where a suspected chemical weapons attack took place in April.

The inspectors brought back samples to the OPCW laboratory in Rijswik, near The Hague. Those samples will be.

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