Iran bid farewell to the victims of the deadly strike that targeted an elementary school in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan during the latest US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic.
Grieving families and mourners filled the streets on Tuesday morning carrying small coffins and photographs of the young victims, who perished as a result of the atrocity against the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab, as cries and prayers echoed throughout the city.
The service came three days after the US-Israeli terrorist strike that devastated the facility, leaving 165 children dead and nearly 100 others injured.
Hundreds of thousands of brave Iranians in #Minab County at the funeral of 165 elementary school girls who were massacred in joint US-Israeli attacks pic.twitter.com/qZRiQAh0hw
— Iran Military Monitor (@IRIran_Military) March 3, 2026
Following the tragedy, Minab’s prosecutor confirmed the scale of the casualties, denouncing the “criminal” and “savage” attack.
“Among the martyrs are also educational staff and parents of the students,” he noted at the time.
The entirely civilian two-story building housed a boys’ school on the ground floor and a girls’ school on the first floor.
Chief Justice of Hormozgan Province, Mojtaba Qahremani, said on Tuesday that so far, the bodies of 140 martyrs of the school have been identified, and burial permits have been issued for them.
The identities of 25 bodies have not yet been confirmed, he added.
Due to the intensity of the explosion, some of these bodies could not be identified through conventional methods and require DNA testing, he added.
Qahremani noted that the remnants of the weapons used at the site of the attack have been discovered, seized, and collected, and based on this, the matter of this crime is being pursued in domestic and international judicial bodies.
Source: Iranian media