Iranian state media is claiming that dozens of students were killed in a strike that hit a girls’ school in southern Iran on Saturday.
At least 57 students were killed with dozens of others buried under rubble, the Mehr news outlet reported. The county governor of Minab, Hormozgan, where the purported strike took place, had said earlier that 24 students were killed.
CNN is unable to independently verify the reports and has reached out to the US and Israeli militaries for comment. The Pentagon said it had nothing to share at this time.
“The US & Israel launched an egregious, unwarranted act of aggression against Iran by indiscriminately targeting Iranian cities,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmael Baqaie, who claimed that “tens of innocent young girls” had been killed and maimed at the school in Minab.
Another Iranian news agency posted video purporting to show extensive damage to the school, with smoke rising from the building, as well as cranes lifting debris.
Saturday is the first day of the school week in Iran.
Two high-school students were killed in a separate missile attack in Tehran, according to Iranian media outlets.
