Nearly 80 ladies had been poisoned and hospitalized in two separate assaults at their main faculties in northern Afghanistan, a neighborhood schooling official stated Sunday.
It is regarded as the primary time this sort of assault has occurred because the Taliban swept to energy in August 2021 and started their crackdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan ladies and ladies.
Girls are banned from schooling past sixth grade, together with college, and girls are barred from most jobs and public areas.
The schooling official stated the one that orchestrated the poisoning had a private grudge however didn’t elaborate.
The assaults occurred in Sar-e-Pul province over Saturday and Sunday.
Nearly 80 feminine college students had been poisoned in Sangcharak district, stated Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial schooling division. He stated 60 college students had been poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 others had 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 hospital and now they are all fine.”
The division’s investigation is ongoing and preliminary inquiries present that somebody with a grudge paid a 3rd celebration to hold out the assaults, Rahmani stated.
He gave no data on how the ladies had been poisoned or the character of their accidents. Rahmani didn’t give their ages however stated they had been in grades 1 to six.
Neighboring Iran has been rocked by a wave of poisonings, largely in ladies’ faculties, courting again to final November. Thousands of scholars stated they had been sickened by noxious fumes within the incidents. But there was no phrase on who could be behind the incidents or what _ if any _ chemical compounds have been used.
