Afghanistan: As many as 80 college women had been poisoned and hospitalised in a main college in northern Afghanistan, a neighborhood schooling official mentioned on Sunday. This is taken into account to be the primary time such an incident has taken place because the takeover by the Taliban in August 2021 and commenced their crackdown on the rights and freedoms of Afghan girls and women.
Girls are banned from schooling past sixth grade, together with college, and girls are barred from most jobs and public areas. The schooling official mentioned the one who orchestrated the poisoning had a private grudge however didn’t elaborate. The assaults happened in Sar-e-Pul province over Saturday and Sunday.
Nearly 80 feminine college students had been poisoned in Sangcharak district, mentioned Mohammad Rahmani, who heads the provincial schooling division. He mentioned 60 college students had been poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabod Aab School and 17 others had been poisoned in Naswan-e-Faizabad School.
“Both main faculties are close to to one another and had been focused one after the opposite,” he advised The Associated Press. “We shifted the scholars to hospital and now they’re all high quality.”
The division’s investigation is ongoing and preliminary inquiries present that somebody with a grudge paid a 3rd occasion to hold out the assaults, Rahmani mentioned. He gave no data on how the women had been poisoned or the character of their accidents. Rahmani didn’t give their ages however mentioned they had been in grades 1 to six.
Neighboring Iran has been rocked by a wave of poisonings, principally in women’ faculties, courting again to final November. Thousands of scholars mentioned they had been sickened by noxious fumes in the incidents. But there was no phrase on who is perhaps behind the incidents or what — if any — chemical substances have been used.
(With inputs from AP)
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