Iran says Minab school strike death toll 155: state TV

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Iran shared on Tuesday a breakdown of the death toll from a deadly strike on an Iranian school on the first day of the Middle East war, state media reported according to AFP.

Seventy-three boys and 47 girls were killed in the February 28 strike on an Iranian elementary school in Minab, state broadcaster IRIB and local media reported.

Twenty-six teachers, seven parents, a school bus driver, and a pharmacy technician at the clinic next to the school were also killed, IRIB said in a Telegram post. This puts the death toll at 155 instead of more than 175 reported earlier.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the attack in a video address to the United Nations Human Rights Council as a “calculated, phased assault”.

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