Bombs began falling in a joint US–Israeli attack, reported Iranian authorities.
An elementary school in Minab, a city in Hormozgan province in southern Iran, was struck during the joint US-Israeli attack on Saturday morning. The bombing killed over 100 people and left dozens more still unaccounted for, reported Iranian authorities.
Parents across Iran had just dropped their children at school on Saturday morning when bombs began falling in a joint US–Israeli attack. In Minab, a city in Hormozgan province in southern Iran, a strike on an elementary school has killed at least 148 people, with dozens more still unaccounted for.
Some 170 schoolgirls were inside Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Elementary School when the strike hit at 10:45am local time, according to Mohammad Ashouri, the governor of Hormozgan province. Minab’s judiciary said 148 people had been killed and 95 injured, most of them schoolgirls.
The school appears to be adjacent to a Revolutionary Guards barracks. If confirmed by external sources, the death toll would make the bombing the deadliest single incident of the US-led offensive so far.
Iranian state television broadcast images of the destroyed building, showing classroom benches buried beneath rubble as distraught mothers gathered in the courtyard. A video circulating on social media, verified by Persian fact-checkers at Factnameh, shows smoke rising from charred walls and debris scattered across the road, as hundreds of onlookers crowd the scene and screams echo in the background.
Iran condemned the strike as an example of what it described as US and Israeli atrocities. Foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei called it a “war crime”, while President Masoud Pezeshkian described the attack as “savage” and “inhumane”. Hossein Kermanpour, spokesperson for Iran’s health ministry, wrote on X that the bombing was “the most bitter news” of the conflict so far, adding: “God knows how many more children’s bodies will be pulled from under the rubble.”
The strike formed part of a broader joint US–Israeli offensive that began in Tehran and expanded across the country. Iran’s Red Crescent said 201 people were killed and 747 injured across 24 provinces on Saturday, without specifying how many were civilians.
The military offensive came amid ongoing diplomatic negotiations between Iran and the United States, roughly seven weeks after Tehran violently suppressed nationwide anti-regime protests, with security forces opening fire on unarmed demonstrators.
Iran has since responded in kind, with ballistic missile attacks targeting 27 military bases hosting US troops across the region.
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