The United Nations rights chief calls for answers after a deadly strike on an Iranian elementary school, as media investigations conclude the United States was most likely responsible.
On the first day of the war last Saturday, a strike hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab and killed at least 150 people, say Iranian officials.
UN rights chief Volker Turk condemns “this absolutely tragic incident,” and says he hopes investigations will be “prompt, and that they will be done in full transparency.”
“We also expect accountability to be served, because obviously mistakes were clearly made,” he tells reporters in Geneva.
Neither Israel nor the United States has claimed responsibility for the attack, which was close to sites controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
The US Department of Defense has said it is investigating the incident.
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