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Fundamentalists Target Afghan Girls School With Poison | Following a similar attack last month, 120 Afghan students at a girls school were targeted with poison in the country’s northern Takhar Province. Authorities blamed the Taliban, which has a record of attacking girls schools, for the poisoning. One hundred twenty school girls and three teachers suffered from poisoning due to an unidentified airborne agent. The U.N. mission there called on the U.S.-led NATO forces to “ensure that effective security measures are in place to protect schools, students, and teachers.” Reuters released this photograph of one student being treated in the hospital:
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