The death toll from an attack Saturday on a school in Iran's south has risen to 85, the judiciary said, after the US and Israel launched strikes on the Islamic Republic.
'The number of martyrs at the girls' school in Minab has increased to 85," the judiciary's Mizan Online website quoted the area's prosecutor's office as saying.
The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.
A staff member at the Minab school, who asked not to be named, told Middle East Eye she remains in shock at the intensity of the attack.
Through tears, she said she used to watch the young girls playing at school every day. After today’s strikes, however, she saw their bodies lying on classroom benches and in different corners of the school.
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