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KABUL (Reuters) - Around 60 Afghan girls were hospitalised after being poisoned at their school in northern Afghanistan, police said on Monday.
The poisoning, which targeted a girls' school in the Afghan province of Sar-e Pol, comes after intense scrutiny of girls' education in the war-torn nation since the Taliban took over and barred most teenage female students and after a wave of poison attacks on girls' schools in neighbouring Iran.