Posted on 05/11/2009 11:29:02 AM PDT by Clive
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 to school," said Noor Jahan, a ninth grader at Ura Jalili Girls' High School.
In another room a mother sat beside her unconscious daughter's bed, crying and rubbing the girl's forehead. Around her lay several dazed and pale schoolmates.
"I was in a lesson when suddenly two classmates lost consciousness and collapsed," said Nabila, a 21-year-old in one of the beds. Years of war and unrest mean children often finish school late in Afghanistan.
She said the room had filled with an odour like insecticide at around 11 a.m., and some girls started vomiting.
Police declined to comment.
The incident comes barely two weeks after a mystery poisoning at another girls' school in the same town, which produced similar symptoms, although victims of the first incident said they did not remember an unusual smell.
There have been no clues as to the type of gas used in either case. Blood samples have been sent to the nearby U.S. Bagram airbase but results have not yet come back from the first incident.
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Oh, the joys of diversity
Gotta love those rascally Taliban ! /s
Smelled like insecticide? Sounds like the Taliban mixed up some GB agent and dispersed it in the school. Gotta love them Taliban.
Bloody savages.
More of Obammy’s “moderate Taliban”, to be sure.
I’ll ask this again. Where are the fathers of these girls and why aren’t they forming vigilante groups to kill anyone remotely associated with the Taliban?
Muslim men are cowards. They deserve the world they have made for thier children.
Yep, if people don't agree with you - do violence against them. That's one sick mantra. It's also the "Chicago Way" - - maybe these monsters are closeted democrats after all...
That is so sad and that is jihad.
Prayers for the victims.
Thanks for the ping fanfan.
ping.
I’m starting to think we may not be able to help these people, and it saddens me.
Prayers for the victims.
Oh Lord help them. Sick, just sick.
How vicious!
I hate the Taliban.
Cowards! Picking on defenseless schoolgirls.
And Obama wants to sit down and chat with the people who supply the Taliban with their weapons and their poison.
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