Tehran, Feb. 28 (EFE).- More than 50 girls were killed and dozens others injured on Saturday in an Israeli strike on a primary school in southern Iran, authorities said.
Iran’s Ministry of Education said 53 female students were killed in what it described as a “savage” Israeli attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school in Minab city of the southern Hormozgan province.
Some 48 other students were also wounded in the strike, the ministry added.
Earlier, Vice Governor Ahmad Nafisi said the school, which has 170 students in its morning shift, was directly hit in what he described as “attacks by the Zionist regime against the city of Minab,” according to the state news agency IRNA.
Rescue teams were deployed to the scene to assist the injured and remove debris, Nafisi said.
Earlier on Saturday, Israel and the United States launched attacks against Iran, with explosions reported in Tehran and other cities, including Tabriz in the northwest and Isfahan in central Iran.
In response, Iran fired missiles and drones at US military bases in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, as well as at military sites in Israel, according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
EFE journalists witnessed scenes of chaos in Tehran, with severe traffic congestion, parents collecting children from schools and long lines at ATMs. Iran’s airspace was closed and internet access disrupted.
EFE has not been able to independently verify the full extent of the Israeli and US attacks, as international media are restricted from accessing or filming in the affected areas. EFE
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