During these airstrikes, a chemical attack occurred on the afternoon/evening of 7 April, with Union of Medical Relief Organisations and other NGOS and rebel groups accusing the government of perpetrating it. Syrian state media and Russia denied the accusations. The following day, according to the Syrian military, a new ceasefire was declared after government troops captured al-Rayhan. State media reported that Jaysh al-Islam had agreed to leave Douma. It added that buses had been dispatched to evacuate the rebels and the prisoners they had released under the deal. A bus carried dozens of rebels and their families to northern Syria while the first batch of the rebels' prisoners were released simultaneously.