Iran Says Air Raid Killed 68 Girls

Iran said today that 68 schoolgirls were killed when Iraqi jets attacked two schools in a city in northern Iran, and claimed that angry residents of a village in central Iran “executed” an Iraqi pilot shot down on a bombing run.

Iran’s state-owned news agency, IRNA, said that the 68 schoolgirls died Sunday and that 150 others were injured when Iraqi warplanes bombed an elementary school and a high school in the city of Mianeh, 250 miles northwest of Tehran. The girls were attending classes when the raid began, the news agency reported.