New Delhi, March 9 -- The United States may have been responsible for the bombing of a girls' school in Iran, which led to the death of 168 people on the first day of the strikes in Iran, 28 February, CBS News reported.

Citing sources, the report said that preliminary US assessment has suggested that Washington is "likely" responsible for the attack, adding that they may not have intentionally targeted the school and may have hit it in error, possibly due to the use of outdated intelligence inputs that wrongly identified the areas as part of an Iranian military installation.

The development is in stark contrast to what US President Donald Trump said on 7 March. Trump, when asked whether the US conducted the strikes that hit the girls' s...