Minab is not a remote military enclave. It is a populated coastal city in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province, east of Bandar Abbas and situated along routes that connect inland communities to the Strait of Hormuz. It is a place where fishermen return at dawn, where markets open early, and where children walk to school carrying notebooks and packed lunches.
On Saturday morning—Iran’s working week begins on Saturday—students were reportedly in class at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school when the strike hit. Witness accounts described an explosion followed by the collapse of sections of the building. Rescue crews arrived at scenes of shattered concrete and dust-choked corridors.
Images circulated rapidly. Schoolbags lay torn in the rubble. Pages from textbooks fluttered among broken masonry. Families gathered in shock outside what remained of the school gates, searching for daughters who had left home hours earlier.
The transformation was instant. A place of learning became a site of mass mourning.
Initial reports cited 148 killed and 95 wounded, attributed to local judicial officials in Minab. Hours later, Iranian sources reported that the number of deaths had risen to 165, most of them schoolgirls, along with teachers and staff.
The strike stands as one of the deadliest single incidents involving children in this war.
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