Nearly 90 Afghan Schoolgirls Were Poisoned, Officials Suspect
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Eighty-nine schoolgirls and their teachers in northern Afghanistan were hospitalized with respiratory and neurological symptoms over the weekend in what officials believe were deliberate poisonings at two girls' schools, officials said.On Saturday, 63 students and staff members at Kabod Aab School an elementary school for girls in the northern Sar-i-Pul Province became sick shortly after arriving in their classrooms that morning, officials and parents of those students said.
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