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  • Dozens injured in Afghan girls' school poisoning

    05/11/2009 11:29:02 AM PDT · by Clive · 13 replies · 547+ views
    Reuters via National Post ^ | 2009-05-11 | Hamid Shalizi
    CHARIKAR, Afghanistan -- Nearly 50 teenagers were admitted to hospital after a suspected mass poisoning at an Afghan girls' school, a doctor said on Monday, in the second such incident in a month. The headmaster rushed his students out of their classrooms in the northern town of Charikar after they smelt an unusual odour and started feeling nauseous and dizzy, a 17-year-old victim told Reuters from her hospital bed. "I am pretty sure whoever has done this is against education for girls, but I strongly ask the parents not to be discouraged by such brutal action and send their children...