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.
Mass casualty event
It’s a massacre, ffs.
That implicated with bombing cities. What the fuck do people expect to happen if you’re throwing a couple tons of explosives on densely inhabited urban areas?
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?
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.
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It was 60 meters next to a military base
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.
I hate that it’s so on-brand for the US to target a school.
And to have morons on the internet trying to convince people that it was not then, not their fault. As if they weren’t child fuckers.
Bombing schools prevents nuclear capability huh?
This president has done way worse to children then bombing them unfortunately.
Who one? The one in Mar a Lago or the one in Tel Aviv?
I am really bothered by the fact that claims like this are echoed by media outlets unchecked, while making them seem like journalism by appending ‘according to [directly involved party] sources’, maybe even ‘can’t be independently verified’.
I mean, Reuters has confirmed that this strike happened and that the video material is credible. Okay, so far so good. That’s bad, and you can report on it and raise questions based off of it. You have something to investigate, you can generate tons of content by discussing adjacent topics, but no, media decides to go for round 2 and report some unverified death toll.
Whether there are 2 or 200 dead children, the story is the same. Why give inherently unreliable sources a stage and credibility by echoing their claim? It’s so frustrating that the wider media landscape is based on grabbing peoples attention, rather than good journalism.
Isnt it right next to an IRGC base or something? Been seeing speculation it could have been a faulty missile of their own launching
Yes, that’s always a possibility. It happened on Gaza pretty regularly. Missiles launched by Palestinians have a failure rate of 20% that fall inside the Gaza Strip.
The actual chaos of war is rarely perceived. Any event is plaid up in the media war.
This was no accident.
There is no better way to create extremists than unjustified murder of their children.
There is no better way to keep a people subjugated than maintaining them in constant fear.
EEUU and Israel needs to keep breeding terrorists to oppress their citizens.
Wake the fuck up!!!
