Panic has taken over a school after as many as 60 female students got poisoned mysteriously right inside their school.
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The students of a girl school numbering about sixty were mysteriously poisoned in Rustaq district of northern Afghanistan’s Takhar province on Wednesday.
Police Spokesman in the province, Abdul Asir, said the grade seven to 12 of Mir Mulai Girl School in Rustaq district were mysteriously poisoned around 10 a.m.
Speaking further, he said the affected students had been taken to hospital for medical treatment.
Asir added that investigation had been initiated to determine the reason for the problem.
The official recalled that this was the second incident of its kind in Takhar province in the past two weeks.
He said in the previous incident which occured in the same district on April 19, a total of 62 students of a girl school were poisoned and the vomiting caused them to fall unconscious for several hours.