Minab Governor Mohammed Radmehr said another 60 people were injured. He claims that the school came under direct attack, and many of the dead were allegedly children.
53 students are under the rubble, the official indicated. Rescuers are looking for them.
The Guardian notes that Minab is home to one of the bases of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. In Iran, after the United States and Israel launched strikes on the country in the morning, the Internet was completely turned off.
Information about the consequences of the strikes comes mainly from sources controlled by the country's authorities, the article says.
A video is being published online, possibly filmed by eyewitnesses of the arrival at the school.
Context
On the morning of February 28 Israel announces military operation “Lion's Roar” in Iran, explosions were reported in Tehran and a number of other cities in the country. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes were aimed at eliminating the “existential threat” from Iran. He called on the multi-ethnic people of Iran to use attacks on the Ayatollah regime to take power into their own hands.
US President Donald Trump announced his intention “to protect the American people by eliminating the immediate threats posed by the Iranian regime.” He warned of the possibility of casualties in the US military, noting that “this happens often in war, but [Белый дом] does this not for the sake of today, but for the sake of the future, and this is a noble mission.”
One Iranian official told Reuters that Tehran will respond with a “crushing” blow. Later The Israel Defense Forces recorded several retaliatory missile launches from Iran. The media later wrote about the fall of two ballistic missiles in northern Israel. This happened in an open area and no injuries were reported at the time.
Later recorded explosions in several other countries in the Middle East where there are American military bases – in Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
