Glimpse of a damaged classroom, more than six months after the US strike (Photo: AP)
Some 120 children were killed when at least one missile hit the school on February 28, according to the account provided by the Associated Press, although a final accounting of those killed has not yet been made. Relatives return to clean the children’s graves and pay their respects, keeping alive the memory of those lost in the strike. Families often gather at the shattered remains of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, southern Iran to grieve and remember the children who were killed in a US airstrike on the school during the first day of the war. Glimpse of a damaged classroom (Photo: AP) The school, once filled with classrooms, desks and children’s drawings, now lies in ruins. Concrete hangs from exposed reinforcing bars, while classroom desks and chairs remain scattered inside and among the rubble. Colourful tree and flower decorations that once adorned the walls have survived amid the destruction. As volunteers search through the wreckage, they continue to recover remnants of the children’s lives, including notebooks and a drawing stencil. Each item offers a small reminder of the children who were inside the school when it was hit. At a section of Minab’s cemetery set aside for those killed at the school, families continue to mourn.
