Nigeria, March 1 -- The death toll from a US and Israeli strike on an Iranian girls' elementary school has now risen to 85, according to local media.

Al Jazeera quotes a report by Iran's semiofficial Tasnim News Agency that quotes local officials as saying that the death toll had risen to 85.

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 Saturday attack. Later on Saturday, the death toll rose to 40. The death toll has now risen to 85.

Emergency workers are currently clearing wreckage from the site, where 63 others were also injured.

Aljazeera, quoting Iran's Tansim News Agency, also reported that two students were...