Girls stay home from school in eastern Afghanistan out of fear of gas attacks

MUHMUD RAQI, Afghanistan — Only a few dozen of about 570 female students attended class in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday after an apparent attack with poison gas sickened more than 80 girls this week.

89 Afghan girls sickened in third case of apparent gas poisoning at a school

MUHMUD RAQI, Afghanistan — Officials and doctors say 89 Afghan schoolgirls have been hospitalized in the third case of alleged gas poisoning in eastern Afghanistan in less than three weeks.