Nearly 80 schoolgirls poisoned in Afghanistan

Nearly 80 women have been poisoned and hospitalised in two separate assaults at their major colleges in Afghanistan, an official has stated.

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 ladies and women.

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

The training official stated 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, stated Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial training division.

He stated 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 instructed 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 social gathering to hold out the assaults, Mr Rahmani stated.

He gave no info on how the women have been poisoned or the character of their accidents.

Mr Rahmani additionally didn’t give their ages however stated 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’ colleges, from final November.

Thousands of scholars stated they turned sick due to noxious fumes from the incidents, however there was no phrase on who is perhaps behind the incidents or what chemical substances could have been used.