00:00More than four months after a U.S. missile struck a primary school in southern Iran,
00:05questions still surround one of the deadliest attacks of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign.
00:11Drawing on interviews, satellite imagery and official records,
00:14an investigation by the Associated Press reconstructs the final moments before the strike in Mina.
00:20It also reports that the U.S. military had evidence almost immediately that a school had been hit.
00:28On the morning of February 28th, the first day of the U.S.-Israeli military campaign against Iran,
00:35news of the bombing had already reached the Shajare Tayabeh Elementary School in the southern city of Mina.
00:41Teachers stopped lessons. Staff began calling parents, urging them to pick up their children as soon as possible.
00:47Some families made it in time. Others arrived too late.
00:51As the country's internet connection wavered, staff speed-dialed parents,
00:55asking them to come pick up their children as soon as possible.
01:00Some parents raced to the school and managed to get there in time to pick up their kids.
01:04Others got there just as the U.S. missiles began to fall on the compound and the school.
01:09Iran blamed the United States for the strike.
01:12Footage and media reports emerged later to show a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking the school.
01:17The building was next to a compound linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
01:22The Trump administration has not directly accepted responsibility,
01:26while Secretary of War Pete Hexert said the Pentagon was investigating.
01:30A U.S. official told the AP that the military had evidence almost immediately following the strike
01:35that the site of the school had been struck.
01:38The same official said that even though the building housing the school was identified as such
01:43by an analyst years ago, that information was not made more widely known
01:49across U.S. intelligence and military agencies.
01:52The strike was the deadliest reported in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
01:56Even now, there is no complete list of those killed.
02:00According to the Associated Press, the most comprehensive list of victims have been compiled
02:05by Airwars, an organization that tracks civilian casualties in conflict.
02:09And they have identified 157 victims, 123 of them children, many aged just 6 to 13 years old.
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