Poison Gas Attack On Aghan Girl School In Afghanistan Reported

GIRLS' SCHOOL NO. 2 IN JALALABAD: Girls in a fourth-through-sixth-grade class practice classroom skills such as raising their hands for attention. The school has no books and can't pay its teachers, but students are eager to pick up educations suspended by the Taliban. Photo from The Christian Science Monitor

Girls Collapse After Suspected Poison Attack On Afghan School -- The Telegraph

Dozens of girls collapsed and needed hospital attention after a suspected airborne chemical attack on a school in northern Afghanistan.

Five teachers and 40 pupils were overcome by fumes during a school ceremony in the capital of northern Parwan province.

Afghan officials said they were awaiting the results of blood tests to determine what had happened, but there were unconfirmed local reports a bottle had been thrown into the playground beforehand.

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