India, March 30 -- New details have emerged in the US-Israeli bombing of an elementary school in the Iranian city of Lamerd that killed several people on the very first day of the war with Iran, including the use of a newly-developed ballistic missile that completed prototype testing just last year.

The February 28 attack occurred the same day as a US Tomahawk cruise missile struck a school in the city of Minab, several hundred kilometres away, killing 175 people.

According to a New York Times report, explosions and damage at the elementary school and the adjacent sports hall are consistent with a short-range ballistic missile called the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM.

The weapon had been untested in combat before the strike, the re...