An Israeli strike targeting a girls’ school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, has left at least 57 students dead and 60 others wounded, IRNA news agency reports.
Minab’s provincial governor, Mohammad Radmehr, confirmed to IRNA on Saturday that the Shajareye Tayabeh school had directly been attacked and that a number of students had been killed.
Radmehr also said that 53 students are still under the rubble.
He said rescue and aid operations were underway at the school, adding that the security situation in the city was under control.
The United States and the Israel launched a joint strike againt Iran early on Saturday.
The Iranian Armed Forces launched massive retaliatory strikes, targeting the Israeli territories and American military bases across the region with ballistic missiles and drones.
