A US Tomahawk missile hit a military base near a primary school in southern Iran, where Iranian authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed, according to expert video analysis.
A video published by Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency, which BBC Verify has confirmed as authentic, shows a missile moments before it struck an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base next to the Shajareh Tayebeh primary school in Minab.
Experts who have seen this latest video told BBC Verify that the presence of a Tomahawk missile, along with evidence the area was hit with multiple strikes, indicates this was a US operation.
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Neither Israel nor Iran are known to possess Tomahawks, experts said, making the scenario of a single Iranian missile hitting the site at the same time and causing such a high reported death toll highly improbable.
On Saturday, US President Donald Trump said Iran was to blame for the strike on the school, stating, "We think it was done by Iran because they're very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever."\
Investigation Underway
According to the BBC's US news partner CBS, a preliminary assessment of the incident by the US suggests it was "likely" to have been responsible for the deadly attack but did not intentionally target the school and may have hit it in error.
An Israeli government source told CBS News that Israel was not behind the attack and its military was not operating near the school.
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Iran has blamed the US and Israel for the attack, while neither the US nor Israel has publicly accepted or denied responsibility.
The US military's most-senior officer, Gen Dan Caine, said on 2 March that Tomahawks were the first missiles to be fired at Iran by the US Navy as part of "strikes across the southern flank".
