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Kabul: About 80 school girls have been poisoned in Afghanistan. The needle of suspicion is pointing towards the Taliban, but the Taliban have denied any involvement in the incident.
Some 80 girls were poisoned and hospitalized in two separate attacks on their primary schools in northern Afghanistan, a local education official said on Sunday.
The head of the provincial education department, Mohammad Rahmani, told The Associated Press that female students in classes 1 to 6 were poisoned in Sangcharak district.
The education officer said the person who administered the poison had personal enmity, but did not elaborate. The attacks took place on Saturday and Sunday in Sar-e-Pul province.
About 80 girl students were poisoned in Sangcharak district, said Mohammad Rahmani, head of the education department. He said 60 students were poisoned in Naswan-e-Kabad Ab School and 17 others in Naswan-e-Faizabad School.
