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Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media

The death toll from a missile strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran has risen to almost 150, according to Iranian state media.

Mizan news agency, the official news outlet of Iran’s judiciary, reported that the number killed in Saturday’s strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab in southern Iran had risen to 148 killed, with 95 others wounded. The news agency cited Ebrahim Taheri, a prosecutor in Minab.

The school, which was struck on Saturday morning, appears to be the worst mass casualty event of the US-Israeli-led bombing campaign on Iran so far.

Video and photographs from the aftermath of the strike, which have been verified as authentic and geolocated to the site, show hundreds of people gathered around the partially collapsed, smoking building, with rubble strewn across the street and men digging through it for victims. Screams can be heard in the background. In some of the images, schoolbags and textbooks are being pulled from the debris.

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Wikipedia says 600, but I have not independently verified that.

Edit: I have indepdendently verified. From the school to the nearest perimeter of the thing that looks like an airfield, 200+ meters. To any structure likely to be targeted, more. I would say there was something military "in town", and the school was not in the middle of military stuff. It was in a civilian area of the town.

Photo obtained with Wikimapia. Several hundred meters off the possible mark (air field).

Possible clue from Time magazine:

According to Amelirad, based on reports from locals in Minab, the school had previously been used as a military facility but was later converted into a school attended by children from a mixture of military and civilian families attracted by lower tuition.

Source:

Shiva Amelirad, a Canada-based representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, a network of teachers’ unions in Iran

Speculation: the US targeted the school deliberately, because their software marked it as a military object. The software was not receiving timely intelligence updates. The building had been converted into a school years ago.