The gas is believed to have been dropped alongside barrel bombs on a rebel-held part of the city.
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On the other hand, Hamza Khatib, the manager of Al Quds hospital in Aleppo is reported to have said that the hospital recorded four deaths from gas poisoning and 55 injuries. It had reports of two killed and several people suffering breathing difficulties.
A Syrian rescue worker said a mother and her two children were among the dead.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an activist group that tracks the civil war in Syria, also reported that government barrel bombs struck the neighbourhood.
Khatib said he was preserving pieces of patients’ clothing and fragments from the barrel bombs as evidence for analysis.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces have continued to lay siege to the country’s second city as rebels continue their desperate last stand.
He described a six-year-old girl screaming “I can’t breathe” and said he was told of at least 70 people injured.
The city, divided between government and opposition control, is the scene of fierce fighting after Islamist rebels fought through regime lines to break a two-month siege on Friday. Damascus denied responsibility, and blamed rebels.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons confirmed in late 2015 that sulfur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, had been used for the first time in the conflict, without saying which party in the many sided conflict it thought had used it.
Stephen O’Brien, a United Nations aid co-ordinator, said he was willing to consider the Russian plan but that a 48-hour pause in fighting was needed to meet all the humanitarian needs in the Syrian city, which was the country’s most populous before the war.
Meanwhile, the United Nations’ top aid official has said a three-hour truce announced by Russian Federation to deliver aid to Aleppo would not be enough to meet needs of civilians.
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United Nations emergency relief co-ordinator Stephen O’Brien has said he is willing to consider the Russian plan, but warned the pause needed to last at least 48 hours because the main supply route into the city, cut off by government forces last month, is so damaged only smaller trucks can be used.
