Key Facts

• On February 28, a strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, Iran, killed a total of 156 people, including 120 children, a pregnant woman, and her unborn child.
• The school, which was next to an IRGC compound, was hit by a precision-guided Tomahawk missile, a type of cruise missile that neither Israel nor Iran is known to possess.
• According to teacher Amaineh Nademi, the school day had begun as usual, with children gathering in the prayer hall to recite the Quran, before she began teaching her pupils a new letter of the Persian alphabet, when the headteacher announced the school would be closing due to the unfolding attacks.
• US military investigators reportedly believe that outdated data supplied by the US Defence Intelligence Agency may have led to the school being treated as part of a military site, and preliminary findings suggest that US forces may have carried out the strike unintentionally.
• Reza Besharati, a worker with the Iranian Red Crescent Society, described finding the dead "grimly disfigured", with many families recognising their children only by their shoes or clothing, and reported that he and other rescuers were overcome with emotion as they searched the wreckage.