Footage of attack on Minab compound adds to evidence indicating it was a US strike that killed scores of children
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A video has shown a US Tomahawk missile hitting the Iranian naval base next to a primary school in Minab where more than 168 people, mostly children, were killed – adding to evidence that indicates the US was responsible for the school strike.
The video, released by the Iranian news agency Mehr and geolocated to the site by the investigative collective Bellingcat, shows the missile hitting the Minab compound on the morning of 28 February, when US-Israeli strikes on Iran began.
Combined with other evidence from the site, including videos verified by the Guardian, photos of the aftermath and satellite imagery of the strike, the new footage indicates that Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school was hit during a set of strikes by the US, as it targeted an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) naval compound.
