Iran holds funeral for newly identified Minab school strike victims
Tehran, July 22 -- A funeral ceremony was held in the southern Iranian city of Minab on Wednesday, July 22, for 34 victims whose remains were identified through DNA testing months after the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, according to Iran's semi-official Tasnim and Fars news agencies.
The agencies reported that the victims' remains were recovered from beneath the rubble of the school and identified through forensic examinations. Following funeral prayers, mourners carried the flag-draped coffins in a public procession through the city's streets before the victims were laid to rest at the Martyrs' Cemetery in Minab.
Video footage released by Tasnim showed hundreds of people attending the ceremony, offering prayers and pay...
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