Iran Says Air Raid Killed 68 Girls
Iran said today that 68 schoolgirls were killed when Iraqi jets attacked two schools in a city in northern Iran, and claimed that angry residents of a village in central Iran “executed” an Iraqi pilot shot down on a bombing run.
Iran’s state-owned news agency, IRNA, said that the 68 schoolgirls died Sunday and that 150 others were injured when Iraqi warplanes bombed an elementary school and a high school in the city of Mianeh, 250 miles northwest of Tehran. The girls were attending classes when the raid began, the news agency reported.
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