Over 200 Afghan policemen poisoned in Balkh province

A total of 250 Afghan policemen have been poisoned in Afghanistan’s northern province of Balkh, Press TV reports.

Local officials said the incident took place in a police station in Marmul district on Tuesday night.

Nobody has yet claimed responsibility for the poisoning whose cause is still unclear.

The incident is considered the latest in similar poisoning incidents in the war-torn country.

On June 25, 2012, some 76 Afghan policemen were poisoned in a police academy in Lashkargah city in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand.

Apparently, the police officers felt headaches nauseous after eating breakfast.

Meanwhile earlier in the same month, at least 116 students, mostly girls, were poisoned at the Hazrat Imam Zada Yahya high school in the northern province of Sar-e-Pol.

The school girls showed symptoms of exposure to toxic gas, including headache and nausea.

Also on September 26, a total of 16 schoolgirls were poisoned in Um-ul-Benin high school in the capital Kabul.

President Hamid Karzai has blamed the enemies of Afghanistan for the poisoning incidents.