Nigeria, Feb. 28 -- The death toll from an American and Israeli strike on an Iranian girls' elementary school has risen to 40, according to local media.

PREMIUM TIMES reported the strike at a girls' elementary school in Minab, in the Hormozgan province of Southern Iran. Five pupils were initially reported killed in the attack.

Al Jazeera quotes Iran's Fars news agency as saying that the casualty has increased to 40.

It is unclear which of the US and Israel carried out the strike on the school.

The strike on the school is one of many carried out by the US and Israel on Iran early Saturday, days after nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran.

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