http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/05/20105124959408607.html'Gas attack' targets Afghan girls
At least 30 students at a girls' school in northern Afghanistan have been hospitalised after a suspected poisonous gas attack.
Health officials in Kunduz province said the girls were admitted to hospital on Tuesday after vomiting and losing consciousness.
"Others are also coming in. We don't know the exact number of girls affected, it could be many," Homayun Khamosh, the head of the Kunduz city hospital, said.
He said the mass sickening resembled several other suspected gas attacks last week at girls' schools in Kunduz and in Kabul, the Afghan capital.
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There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the incident on Tuesday, but the government has blamed the suspected attacks on fighters opposed to female education.
Taliban denial
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In parts of southern and eastern Afghanistan, particularly in Taliban strongholds, schools for girls still remain closed.
But the Taliban has denied any involvement in the recent spate of suspected attacks, and has condemned the targeting of school girls.
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damn the men who do this - may they fall down and never get up again
stupid asses