00:02There is mounting outrage this morning over the apparent strike on a girls' elementary school in southern Iran.
00:08Video from Manab shows rescue workers and families searching through rubble, backpacks and schoolbooks scattered amid collapsed walls and smoke.
00:17Iranian officials say the missile hit the Shahara Tayaba girls' school on Saturday morning at the start of the school
00:24week as children were in class.
00:26State media reports say at least 175 people, most of them believed to be young schoolgirls, were killed.
00:33Though exact figures are still coming in, an independent verification remains limited.
00:38Iran has condemned the strike as an atrocity.
00:41The head of Iran's Red Crescent called the scale of the killings unmatched.
00:45Even in recent conflicts, writing on X, no such crime has ever taken place in history to date, not even
00:52in Gaza.
00:52UNESCO, the U.N. Education Agency, said in a statement,
00:57the killing of pupils in a place dedicated to learning constitutes a grave violation of the protection afforded to schools
01:04under international humanitarian law.
01:06Nobel laureate Malal Youssef Azai called the deaths unconscionable and urged the protection of civilians under the law.
01:13U.S. Central Command said in a statement that it is aware of reports of civilian harm and is reviewing
01:20them,
01:20but so far has not confirmed responsibility.
01:23The Israeli military says it's not aware of strikes in that specific area.
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