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100 Female School Students Poisoned in Sar-e-Pul
 [Tolo News] As many as 100 female students are believed to have been poisoned in Afghanistan's northern Sar-e-Pul province on Saturday, a provincial health official said.Head of Sar-e-Pul Public Health department Mohammad Amin Altin said the reason behind the poisoning at the Emam Yahya school is still unclear, but the scores of students admitted to hospital had a fever. This comes as hundreds of students were poisoned in the last two months in Takhar, Khost and Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. provinces, raising concerns among the families and the Afghan politicians for the future of education in the country. Parliamentarians have called the poisoning of students a failure of Afghan security and intelligence officials and asked for immediate responses to such incidents, resulting in the capture of a several people, including a female Pak doctor who was accused of helping poison students. Recently, several students including teachers were also set to sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock Book 'im, Mahmoud! by Afghan cops as suspects in carrying out the poisonings. Posted by: Fred 2012-06-24 |
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