Nearly 80 students, mostly girls, poisoned in Afghanistan: officials
Nearly 80 primary school students, mostly girls, are suspected to have been poisoned over the weekend and taken to hospital in Afghanistan's Sangcharak district, Mohammad Rahmani, the head of Education Department in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, told CNN.
The intelligence unit of the provincial police department said they are still investigating the matter, according to Rahmani, who said he spoke to police directly.
So far officials are unclear on the culprit, the motive, and the potential type of poison possibly used against the school children, he added.
Afghan schoolgirls receive treatment for suspected poisoning, at a hospital in Sar-e-Pul province in northern, Afghanistan, Monday, June 5, 2023. An education official in northern Afghanistan says nearly 80 girls at two...
