Nearly 80 schoolgirls poisoned in Afghanistan

Nearly 80 women have been poisoned and hospitalised in two separate assaults at their main faculties in Afghanistan, an official has mentioned.

It is considered the primary time such an assault has occurred for the reason that Taliban seized energy in August 2021 and started a crackdown on the freedoms of Afghan girls and women.

Girls are banned from schooling past the sixth grade, together with college, and ladies are barred from most jobs and public areas.

The schooling official mentioned the one who orchestrated the poisoning had a private grudge, however didn’t elaborate.

Nearly 80 feminine college students have been poisoned within the Sangcharak district of Sar-e-Pul province over Saturday and Sunday, mentioned Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial schooling division.

He mentioned 60 college students have been poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 have been poisoned in Naswan-e-Faizabad School.

“Both primary schools are near to each other and were targeted one after the other,” he informed The Associated Press.

“We shifted the students to the hospital, and now they are all fine.”

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The division has launched an investigation and preliminary inquiries present somebody with a grudge paid a 3rd get together to hold out the assaults, Mr Rahmani mentioned.

He gave no data on how the ladies have been poisoned or the character of their accidents.

Mr Rahmani additionally didn’t give their ages however mentioned they have been in grades one to 6.

Schoolgirl poisonings in neighbouring Iran

Neighbouring Iran has been rocked by a spate of poisonings, largely in women’ faculties, from final November.

Thousands of scholars mentioned they turned sick due to noxious fumes from the incidents, however there was no phrase on who may be behind the incidents or what chemical compounds might have been used.