Nearly 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks at their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said Sunday.
It is thought to be the first time this kind of assault has happened since the Taliban swept to power in August 2021 and began their crackdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls.
The education official said the person who orchestrated the poisoning had a personal grudge but did not elaborate.The attacks took place in Sar-e-Pul province over Saturday and Sunday. "Both primary schools are near to each other and were targeted one after the other," he told The Associated Press. "We shifted the students to hospital and now they are all fine."
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