TALOQAN (PAN): Four members of a family were killed and a fifth injured when their house was partially buried by a landslide in the northern province of Takhar, officials said on Monday.
TALOQAN (PAN): At least 65 students of the Naheed Shaheed Girls’ High School were poisoned in the northern province of Takhar on Sunday, officials said.
TALOQAN (PAN): In another attack by radicals opposed to women’s education, more than 80 schoolgirls were apparently poisoned in northern Takhar province, officials said on Wednesday.
SHIBERGHAN/TAKHAR (PAN): A local militia commander was killed and an explosives-laden vehicle seized in northern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday.
TALOQAN (PAN): One boy was shot dead and another wounded after they tried to run away from a juvenile centre in northern Takhar province, an official said on Tuesday.
TQLOQAN/AIBAK (PAN): Heavy floods devastated northern provinces of Takhar and Samangan, killing three people, destroying large swath of farmland and livestock, officials said on Saturday.
TALOQAN (PAN): Twenty girls remained hospitalised on Wednesday afternoon after drinking toxic water in their school in the Rustaq district of northern Takhar province a day earlier, an official said.
TALOQAN (PAN): More than 100 girl students were hospitalised, apparently poisoned, after drinking water at their school in northern Takhar province, officials said on Tuesday.