Police said on Monday that about 60 Afghan schoolgirls were hospitalized after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan.

The poisoning at a girls’ school in the Afghan province of Sari Pol follows a wave of poisonings at girls’ schools in neighboring Iran.

“Some unidentified people infiltrated a school for girls in the Sancharak district … and poisoned the classrooms, when the girls entered the classrooms they were poisoned,” said Den Mohammad Nazari, a police spokesman for Shar-e-Pol, without specifying what substance was used. used or who was believed to be involved that he is behind this episode.

Nazari added that the girls were taken to the hospital but were in “good condition”. No arrests were made.

In neighboring Iran, about 13,000 schoolgirls have fallen ill since November as a result of poisonings in girls’ schools.

Since taking power in August 2021, the Taliban government has banned most female and male students from high schools and universities, drawing condemnation from foreign governments and many Afghans.

The Taliban authorities have kept primary schools open for girls as young as 12 and say they favor female education, but under certain conditions.

Source: RES-IPE