In the news article: Taliban poison attack or mass hysteria? Chaos hits another Kabul girls' school, poisonous gas attacks to prevent girls from attending school is being discussed. This most recent event happened at about 10:30 August 25 2010. Some questions that would help this story make more sense would be: have the scientist found if it was a gas attack or not? Do the schools have any military help or protection to help prevent these attacks? To be able to report on this even I would need to learn more about the history of the Taliban vs. girls' education. I understand they do not like girls being educated, but why? Also I would need more history on previous attacks on other schools.
On August 25 at about 10:30 am multiple girls in the Totia High School of Kabul began fainting, feeling dizzy, or nauseas. The girls began to panic. The order came to evacuate the school and hundreds of girls ran out with handkerchiefs pressed to their mouths or their head scarves. A total of 46 students and nine teachers were treated in the hospital after what was an "apparent poisoning attack". Many girls after being treated quickly recovered, but some stayed unconscious for several hours. There were also other girls that were feeling the effects long after they went home and changed out of their school clothes. The opinion of whether this was a poisonous gas attack or mass hysteria is split. Most believe that it was a gas attack because "in the largely Pashtun neighborhood in a rough area of eastern Kabul no one one believed the incident was anything other than a chemcial attack by people who object to female education".While others say that it could just be mass hysteria which has been used as to cause physical illness before.
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