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Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school
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At least 63 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, local authorities said.

The attack on Saturday morning hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab city in the southern Hormozgan province as the United States and Israel began launching strikes on targets across Iran.

The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran’s Tasnim and Fars news agencies.

One of the Minab school’s staff, who asked not to be named, told Middle East Eye she is still in shock from the intensity of the attack.

Through tears, she said she used to watch these young girls playing at school every day. But after today’s strikes, she saw their bodies lying on classroom benches and in different corners of the school.