Strike on Girls’ School Kills 115, Iranian State Media Says

At least 115 people, most of them likely children, were killed in a strike on a girls’ elementary school in southern Iran on Saturday, health officials and Iranian state media said.

The school was the Shajarah Tayyebeh school in the southern town of Minab.

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Mohammad Radmehr, the governor of Minab, told Iranian state media that the search for survivors in the rubble ended on Sunday.

Videos and images verified by The New York Times showed that at least half of the two-story school was destroyed.

Emergency workers with the Red Crescent and families combed through rubble littered with schoolbooks and book bags covered in blood and ashes.

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Portions of the building jutted out from the debris.

Colorful murals remained visible on damaged walls.

Desks lay piled with debris.

Verified videos show rescue workers retrieving a severed arm from the rubble.

Victims were laid out in body bags at the scene, where throngs of people gathered among ambulances and rescue workers.

Pirhossein Kolivand, the head of Iran’s Red Crescent, said in a video posted on social media on Sunday, "The Minab school incident has no comparison with any other incident."

The article says it was not immediately clear why the school was hit or which country’s forces had fired at it.

The strike appeared to be the deadliest attack in the ongoing American-Israeli bombing campaign, the article states.

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