Death toll rises to 180 in Israeli attack on Iran’s Minab girls’ school

Tehran: The death toll from a devastating Israeli airstrike on a girls' school in southern Iran has reportedly climbed to approximately 180, a senior Iranian health official said Sunday, as the regional conflict ignited by the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei intensifies.

Hossein Kermanpour, the head of public relations for Iran’s Ministry of Health, confirmed that the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab resulted in the deaths of "about 180 young children." The school, located in the Hormozgan province near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, was reportedly hit during the morning session when nearly 170 students were present.

"Sixty children were killed, 80 were injured, God knows how many more bodies will be pulled from the rubble," Kermanpour had initially stated on social media on Saturday, before revising the figure upward as recovery efforts continued through Sunday.

The strike on the school was not the only civilian infrastructure targeted in the escalating "Epic Fury" campaign. Kermanpour noted that the "same type" of missile used in the Minab massacre was also deployed in an attack on the Gandhi Hospital in central Tehran hours earlier.

"Tehran's Gandhi hospital was attacked by Zionist-American air strikes," ISNA reported, describing significant structural damage that forced a full evacuation of patients into the streets.