Nigeria, March 3 -- The Iranian government on Tuesday held a mass funeral for the 165 schoolgirls and staff killed in a US-Israel strike.

The schoolgirls were killed by the initial strike on Iran on Saturday.

PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported the strike at a girls' elementary school in Minab, in the Hormozgan province of Southern Iran.

Five pupils were initially reported killed on Saturday, before the toll began to rise steadily as emergency workers cleared the wreckage and identified more victims.

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the toll first rose to 95, and then to 118 before rising to over 160.

CNN reported that it geolocated the site of the wreckage and found that the elementary school is 61 meters from an Iranian military base.

It re...