H/T Richard
Reuters:
By Folad Hamdard
TALUQAN, Afghanistan | Sun Apr 21, 2013 11:06pm IST
(Reuters) – As many as 74 schoolgirls in Afghanistan’s far north fell sick after smelling gas and were being examined for possible poisoning, local officials said on Sunday.
While instances of poisoning are sometimes later found to be false alarms, there have been numerous substantiated cases of mass poisonings of schoolgirls by elements of Afghanistan’s ultra-conservative society that are opposed to female education.
Local officials said the girls became ill after smelling gas at their school, Bibi Maryam, in Takhar province’s capital, Taluqan. The city is about 250 kilometres north of the country’s capital, Kabul.
The Takhar governor’s spokesman, Sulaiman Moradi, blamed “enemies of the government and the country” for the mass illness and said the aim was to stop girls from going to school.
The girls were taken to the provincial hospital and most were released after being treated, though several remained in a critical condition on Sunday evening, the head of the hospital, Dr Jamil Frotan, said.
“We have already sent samples of their blood to the Ministry of Public Health and it will soon become clear what the reason for their illness was,” Frotan said.
“Afghanistan’s ultra-conservative society”?
Big macho, manly, Muslim Taliban picking on school girls. Makes me want to throw up.
Muslims are the vilest of creatures, descended from apes and pigs!!
Chemical and bio attacks in Syria and other places are reported in many papers, the same attacks in Afghanistan are ignored, this makes Afghanistan an ideal place for the Jihadists to test their weapons with the majority of the west remaining ignorant of their actions.