Iran holds funerals for girls, staff killed in air strike on school

Two people in camouflage uniforms move large rectangular containers wrapped in the colors of the Iranian flag. The front container features two small photos of a young child. They are in a warehouse with blue pallets.

Thousands of people gathered in Minab, Iran, for mass funerals of victims killed on Saturday when a girl’s elementary school was hit by airstrikes. Iranian media is reporting that 168 children were killed and the UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights is calling for an ‘impartial and thorough’ investigation into the strike.

CBC | World News

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