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The strike dispersed tungsten pellets causing extensive civilian casualties and damage, raising questions about target selection and the Pentagon's use of combat evaluations, officials said.
- On February 28, a U.S. Precision Strike Missile struck an elementary school and sports hall in Lamerd, Iran, killing at least 21 people and injuring around 100, according to an investigation.
- The Precision Strike Missile, developed by Lockheed Martin, is designed to "neutralize, suppress or destroy adversary anti-access and area denial capabilities" within a range of roughly 400 miles.
- High-Resolution satellite imagery shows the nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps military building remained largely undamaged, while buildings sustained pockmarks consistent with tungsten pellets from airburst design.
- Responding to reports, U.S. Central Command spokesperson Tim Hawkins stated the military is investigating, stressing that "US forces do not indiscriminately target civilians."
- Earlier that day, a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile strike on a school in Minab killed around 170 people, including 110 children, broadening the scope of civilian casualties.
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On the first day of the war with Iran, a weapon that presents the characteristics of an American ballistic missile, recently developed, precision Strike Missile, or PRSM, semi-balistic missile, according to a visual and military analysis carried out by New York Times, and by BBC, hit a sports center in Lamerd, Iran, on the first day of the war (February 28th), killing 21 people.
The revelation: The structure and its gym were affected on the first day of war. The dead are 21: among them several young athletes
US military 'looking into' possible 2nd strike that hit civilian target
The U.S. military is “looking into” whether it was responsible for a strike in the early hours of the Iran war that hit a sports hall and adjacent elementary school, a CENTCOM spokesman confirmed to the Washington Examiner. This Feb. 28 strike and others occurred near the city of Lamerd and resulted in the deaths of at least 21 people, the New York Times reported on Sunday. This incident occurred on the same day the United States is accused of h…
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