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Iran’s Mehr news agency is reporting a US missile attack on a school in the central city of Khomeyn, according to Al Jazeera.

It identified the site as Dr Hafez Khomeni School and said a number of residential homes around the building were damaged.

There was no immediate report of casualties.

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