Iran soccer players hold backpacks to honor schoolkids killed in missile strike

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Iran soccer players hold backpacks to honor schoolkids killed in missile strike
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Players held small backpacks as Iran’s national soccer team used a match against Nigeria to honor the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school. More than 165 people were killed, most of them children, when a February 28 strike, likely launched by the U.S., hit the school in southern Iran.

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