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Iranians mourn children killed in US bombing of school

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“On the 28th February, a missile strike hit a school in Minab in Hormozgan Province.”
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Wikipedia and multiple web search results explicitly confirm that on February 28, 2026, a missile strike hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Hormozgan province.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hormozgan province (Persian: استان هرمزگان) is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Bandar Abbas. The province is in the south of the country, in Iran's Region 2 facing Oman, th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormozgan_province
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Minab (Persian: ميناب) is a city in the Central District of Minab County, Hormozgan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minab
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Minab County (Persian: شهرستان میناب) is in Hormozgan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Minab.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minab_County
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“155 people died, including 120 children.”
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Different sources provide conflicting casualty numbers. Amnesty International reports 156 deaths (including 120 children), while a representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations told TIME that some 175 people were killed (at least 108 children).
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel have been engaged in a war with Iran and its regional allies. The conflict began when the US and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, targeting mili…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The HESA Ababil (Persian: ابابیل) is an Iranian family of single-engine multirole tactical unmanned aerial vehicles manufactured by Iran Aircraft Manufacturing Industrial Company (HESA). The Ababil co…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Ababil
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has been accused of carrying out genocide against Palestinians during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. A wide consensus of scholars have concluded that Israel's a…
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“a preliminary American military investigation found that the strike was made in error: the actual target was an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guards Military Base.”
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Multiple sources indicate the strike was an error targeting an adjacent military facility. One web search result explicitly states the strike 'appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base,' and another mentions the strike hit the school and an 'adjacent Revolutionary Guard compound.'
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of the April ceasefire, the 2026 Iran war has resulted in thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries, mostly in Iran and Lebanon but also in Iraq, Israel, Palestine, countries around the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2026_Iran_wa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, a sports hall in Lamerd, Fars province in southern Iran was attacked by a two‑missile strike while a women's volleyball team was using the facility, killing at least 21 people, in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Lamerd_sports_hall_attack
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the first day of the 2026 Iran war, the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, providing co-located single-gender education, of the Shahrak-e Al-Mahdi neighbourhood in Minab, Hormoz…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
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