Afghan police revealed on Monday that around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalized after experiencing poisoning at their school in northern Afghanistan.
According to the spokesperson for the Sar-e Pol police, "unknown individuals entered a girls' school and poisoned the classrooms," but he did not provide details on the substance used or who is suspected of responsibility for the incident. He noted that the girls were taken to the hospital but are in "good condition."
The poisoning incidents occurred at a girls' school in Sar-e Pol province and followed numerous questions regarding girls' education after the Taliban takeover, which has prevented most girls from receiving education, along with a wave of poisoning cases in girls' schools in neighboring Iran.
Since seizing power in 2021, the Taliban administration has prohibited most female students from attending secondary schools and universities, prompting international condemnation and outrage from many Afghans.
Taliban authorities have kept primary schools open for girls until around the age of 12 and claim to support female education, but under certain conditions. During the previous Afghan government, which was backed by the West, several poisoning attacks, including suspected gas attacks, occurred at girls' schools.
