“Personal enmity”: almost 80 primary schoolgirls were poisoned in Afghanistan

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In Afghanistan, nearly 80 primary schoolgirls were poisoned and hospitalized after two attacks on schools in Sari-Pul province. A local education official suggested the attacker was motivated by “personal animosity” but did not provide further details, The Guardian reported. The attacks took place in Sar-e-Pul province on June 3 and 4. It is believed to be the first mass poisoning of children since the Taliban seized power in August 2021. Since then, the Taliban have barred girls from education beyond the sixth grade, including higher education, and women from most jobs. Illustrative photo: [email protected]/Depositphotos The head of the provincial education department, Mohammad Rahmani, said that 60 schoolgirls from the Naswan-i-Kabod Aab school and 17 from Naswan-i-Faizabad were poisoned. “Both elementary schools are close to each other and were attacked one after the other. We took the students to the hospital and they are fine now,” he told the AP. He did not provide information about exactly how the girls were poisoned and how much they suffered. Mohammad Rahmani did not give the age of the victims, but said that they were students of grades 1-6. According to preliminary data, the attacker paid a third party to carry out the attacks. Rahmani added that the investigation is ongoing. We will remind you that last year neighboring Iran was also shaken by a wave of poisoning of schoolgirls after mass protests against the dictator. In the fall, hundreds of schoolgirls were hospitalized due to unknown gases, and more than 100 people were detained as suspects in connection with this case. Read also: 19 dead: in Guyana, a schoolgirl set fire to a dormitory because her phone was taken away

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