Death toll from school bombing in southern Iran reportedly rises to 165
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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

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.

  • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
    491·
    2 days ago

    This is tragic and there needs to be answer for it.

    It’s a girl’s school, it’s not a military target, there weren’t “militants” inside and this isn’t Hezbollah where they can claim it was being used as a base. What the fuck happened here, and who specifically is responsible?

    • DandomRude@piefed.socialEnglish
      372·
      2 days ago

      This is not tragic, but a war crime - and this war is itself a crime, simply because it is completely contrary to international law.

        • DandomRude@piefed.socialEnglish
          1·
          22 hours ago

          Of course it is tragic, heartbreaking even. But what bothers me about the term tragic in this context is that it makes it sound as if the deaths of these innocent girls were inevitable, as if they had been killed in a natural disaster for which no one is responsible.

          However, that is not the case here at all: these girls were murdered by ruthless criminals.

    • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      133·
      2 days ago

      Some videos show it appears to be a ballistic missle launch failure from a nearby launch site. The videos have not been verified. We likely won’t know for sure until after Iran’s regime falls.

      Either way its a war crime, either the US/Israel struck a school, or Iran placed offensive missle launchers dangerously close to a school/city.

      • Riverside@reddthat.comEnglish
        103·
        1 day ago

        Some videos show it appears to be a ballistic missle launch failure from a nearby launch site

        Same argument the Zionists were making about the hospital in Gaza… Recycling the same shit over and over again. It’s very easy to distinguish a mid-range air to land missile from a short-range land to land missile.

      • perestroika@slrpnk.netEnglish
        91·
        1 day 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.

      • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        2 days ago

        And I don’t think we have missiles in our arsenal that are bad enough that they would miss a target by 60m. Maybe I’m wrong about that though.

        • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          71·
          1 day ago

          They are able to strike a single moving car in a convoy, so I’d say that they wanted to bomb that school.