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US, EU ask govt to probe Sar-i-Pul girls’ poisoning

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ATLANTA (Pajhwok): The United States and European Union (EU) have called on the caretaker government to investigate the schoolgirls' poisoning incident in northern Sar-i-Pul province.

On Sunday, security sources in Sar-i-Pul said that around 60 female students were poisoned in a school in Sancharak district of the province.

Din Mohammad Nazari, Sar-i-Pul police spokesman, told Pajhwok that a number of unknown people entered a girls’ secondary school in Ab Kalan village of Sancharak district, sprayed poisonous gas in the classrooms and that morning about 60 students fainted.

US special representative Thomas West tweeted: “Deeply . . .

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