Nazari said the girls had been taken to ho.spital but were in \u2018good condition\u2019
\nSancharak
\nAround 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said on Monday.
\nThe poisoning, which targeted a girls\u2019 school in the Afghan province of Sar-e Pol, comes after intense scrutiny of girls\u2019 education in the war-torn nation since the Taliban took over and barred most teenage female students and after a wave of poison attacks on girls\u2019 schools in neighbouring Iran.
\n\u201cSome unknown people entered a girls\u2019 … school in Sancharak District .. and poisoned the classes, when the girls come to classes they got poisoned,\u201d said Den Mohammad Nazari, Sar-e-Pol\u2019s police spokesperson, without elaborating on which substance was used or who was thought to be behind the incident.
\nNazari said the girls had been taken to ho.spital but were in \u201cgood condition.\u201d No one had been arrested.
\nIn neighbouring Iran, poisoning incidents at girls\u2019 schools sickened an estimated 13,000 mostly female students since November.
\nDuring Afghanistan\u2019s previous foreign-backed government, several poisoning attacks, including suspected gas attacks, on girls\u2019 schools had taken place.
\nThe Taliban administration has prevented most female students from attending highschool and university since taking over in 2021, sparking condemnation from international governments and many Afghans.
\nTaliban authorities have kept primary schools open for girls, up until the age of around 12 and say they are in favour of female education under certain conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nazari said the girls had been taken to ho.spital but were in \u2018good condition\u2019 Sancharak Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said on Monday. The poisoning, which targeted a girls\u2019 school in the Afghan province of Sar-e Pol, comes after intense scrutiny of girls\u2019 education […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335735,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-335706","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n