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| UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk |
UN Human Rights High Commissioner Volker Türk has addressed the attack on an Iranian girls’ school on 28 February that killed more than 170 people – most of them schoolgirls.
Speaking to the UN’s Human Rights Council, Turk said “the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab evoked a visceral horror”.
“The onus is on those who carried out the attack to investigate it promptly, impartially, transparently and thoroughly,” he said in Geneva.
“Senior US officials have said the strike is under investigation. I call for that process to be concluded as soon as possible, and for its findings to be made public. There must be justice for the terrible harm done,” said Turk.
Separately US and Israeli attacks have so far killed a total of 250 teachers and students, according to the head of the Iranian Ministry of Education’s public relations centre.
Attacks have also damaged 723 educational and cultural facilities, Hossein Sadeghi was quoted as saying by Iran’s IRNA news agency.
The total death toll in Iran is now at least 1,937 since the war was launched on February 28, according to Iran’s Deputy Health Minister Ali Jafarian.
