KABUL — Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said on Monday .
"Some unknown people entered a girls'... school in Sancharak District... and poisoned the classes, when the girls come to classes they got poisoned," said Den Mohammad Nazari, Sar-e-Pol's police spokesperson, without elaborating on which substance was used or who was thought to be behind the incident.
In neighbouring Iran, poisoning incidents at girls' schools sickened an estimated 13,000 mostly female students since November.
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