US senators demand probe into ‘appalling’ attack on girls’s school in Iran
Al Jazeera
Top Democrats say Minab school bombing that killed at least 170 people ‘must be fully and impartially reviewed’.
Top Democratic senators in the United States have called for an investigation into the strike against a girls’ school in southern Iran, saying that the Pentagon must “provide clear answers” about the incident that killed at least 170 people.
Six lawmakers said in a joint statement late on Sunday that they are “horrified” by the bombing of the elementary school in Minab during the opening US-Israeli strikes against Iran on February 28.
“The killing of school children is appalling and unacceptable under any circumstance,” said the senators who serve as the top Democrats on national security panels.
The push comes as new footage of the attack suggested that the site of the school was likely hit by a Tomahawk missile – a weapon used by the US that Israel and Iran do not possess.
The bombing of the elementary school in Minab has become emblematic of the growing civilian death toll from the conflict.
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