150 Afghan schoolgirls seriously ill after being poisoned in anti-education attack

Ultra-conservative extremists have been blamed for poisoning the drinking water at a high school in north Afghanistan - making more than 150 girls seriously ill.

Students in the northern province of Kunduz suffered nausea and vomiting; and some were left in a critical condition - a government education chief said. Radicals who are fiercely opposed to female education may have carried out the attack - the official added.

Some of girls were allowed home after hospital treatment, but many remain unwell.

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