Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official says
It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021. / Photo: AP Archive
Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial education department, said on Sunday that nearly 80 female students were poisoned in Sangcharak district. “Both primary schools are near to each other and were targeted one after the other,” he said. “We shifted the students to the hospital, and now they are all fine."
He gave no information on how the girls were poisoned or the nature of their injuries. Rahmani did not give their ages but said they were in grades 1 to 6.Afghan girls are banned from education beyond sixth grade, including university, and women are barred from most jobs and public spaces.
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