Thousands of mourners have filled the streets of the southern Iranian city of Minab for the funeral of 168 schoolgirls and staff killed in an attack on an elementary school on the opening day of the US-Israeli strikes.
Images from the funeral show row upon row of small, shallow graves – the final resting places of children aged mostly between seven and 12.
Participants dressed in mourning black and carried photographs of the deceased as the funeral procession moved through the city’s main square. Mourners carried coffins one after another, beating their chests in grief.
According to the Iranian government, 168 students at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school have been confirmed dead, along with at least 14 teachers and staff members and four parents who were at the school when the strike occurred.