Doctors are investigating whether dozens of girls were poisoned at a high school in northern Afghanistan on May 11 after 61 girls went to the hospital because of sudden illness, officials said. Dr. Khalil Farhagga said the 61 students and one teacher from a school in Parwan – one province north of Kabul – complained of irritability, tearing and confusion. Several girls also passed out. The mass hospitalisation comes about two weeks after a similar incident in Parwan, where dozens of girls were hospitalised in late April after being sickened by what Afghan officials said were strong fumes or a possible poison gas cloud. Conservative Afghans oppose education for girls, who were not allowed to attend school under the 1996-2001 Taleban regime. Officials on Monday sent blood samples to Kabul and to the main US base in Bagram to test whether some form of poison was to blame, said Farhagga, the director of Charikar’s hospital.
DOCTORS PROBE MASS POISONING OF AFGHAN GIRLS
Doctors are investigating whether dozens of girls were poisoned at a high school in northern Afghanistan on May 11 after 61 girls went to the hospital because of sudden illness,
