A doctor checks on female students in a hospital in Charikar city, May 11, 2009. Nearly 50 Afghan teenagers are in hospital after a mystery gas attack on a girls' school in the northern town of Charikar, the second mass poisoning of female students in a month, a doctor said on Monday. Attacks on girls schools have increased in the past year, particularly in the east and south of the country. Last year a group of schoolgirls in Kandahar had acid thrown in their faces by men who objected to them attending school.REUTERS/Omar SobhaniFrom Yahoo News/AP:
MUHMUD RAQI, Afghanistan – At least 84 Afghan schoolgirls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks, officials and doctors said.
The students were lining up outside their school in northeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday morning when a strange odor filled the school yard, and one girl collapsed, said the school's principal, who was herself in a hospital bed gasping for breath as she described the event.
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My Comment: White Phosphorous, chemical attacks on girl schools .... it appers that the Taliban have adopted the use of chemical weapons in their war.