Funerals were held in Iran for the children who were victims of the deadly US-Israeli strike on an elementary school in Iran

ArmInfo. Funerals were held in Iran for the victims of the deadly strike on an elementary school in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan during the latest Israeli-American aggression against the Islamic Republic. Grieving families gathered to say goodbye to the children killed in the attack.

On Tuesday morning, the streets were filled with mourners carrying small coffins and photographs of the young victims killed in the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab. Screams and prayers echoed throughout the city.

The ceremony took place three days after the American-Israeli terrorist strike that destroyed the school building, killing 165 children and injuring nearly 100 more.

After the tragedy, the Minab prosecutor confirmed the scale of the tragedy, calling the attack "criminal" and "cruel."

"Among the dead are school staff and parents of students," he said at the time.

The two-story building, entirely civilian, housed a boys' school on the ground floor and a girls' school on the second floor.

Immediately after the explosion, thick smoke rose from the ruins, scattering debris across nearby roads.

Families of the victims arrived at the scene, and rescuers began clearing the rubble.

President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed his condolences over the "heartbreaking tragedy that resulted from the treacherous attack, which shook the hearts of all Iranians and free people."

He added that "this inhumane, cruel act is yet another dark page in the endless chronicle of the aggressors' crimes against this land, which will never be erased from the historical memory of our people."

According to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, more than 550 people have died since the aggression began on Saturday.