Around 60 Afghan girls have been poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, local police said on Monday.
Authorities said the girls were subsequently hospitalised and were recovering in ‘good condition’.
The poisoning, which targeted the girls’ school in the Afghan province of Sar-e Pol, comes after intense scrutiny of female education in the war-torn nation since the Taliban took over.
‘Some unknown people entered a girls’ … school in Sancharak District .. and poisoned the classes, when the girls came to classes they got poisoned,’ said Den Mohammad Nazari, Sar-e-Pol’s police spokesperson.
He did not elaborate on which substance was used or who was thought to be behind the incident.
Nazari said the girls had been taken to hospital but were in ‘good condition.’
The police spokesperson also confirmed that no one had yet been arrested.
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Barbaric act
This is pure wickedness