03.03.2026 18:50
Following the targeting of a school in Iran's Hormozgan province, images that emerged before the funeral revealed the extent of mourning in the region. Families gathered for the 153 students and teachers who lost their lives, touching their children in small coffins one last time, while the wails rising in the hall broke hearts.
The events that took place before the funeral for the 153 students and teachers who lost their lives in the attack on a girls' school in Iran's Hormozgan province revealed the indescribable pain of the parents. Families, who found their children, whom they had sent to school after fixing their hair, slinging their bags over their shoulders, and caressing their hair, this time in shrouds, were overwhelmed with tears at the coffins.
FINAL TOUCH
Parents touched and smelled the small bodies of the children, the oldest of whom was reported to be 12 years old, for the last time. Some mothers did not want to leave their children's side; some fainted, and some collapsed to the ground. Although they were tried to be comforted by their relatives, the weight of the pain dominated the hall.
A father silently waiting for a long time at the head of the coffin wrapped in a flag, not taking his eyes off the coffin for even a moment, became one of the most shocking moments of the ceremony. That moment was like an expression of a farewell where words fell short.
FINAL EMBRACE
The images captured moments of a mother bidding farewell to her small child with tears while caressing their face. As the wails of women in black rose, fathers tried to hide their tears by embracing their children's coffins. Each coffin held a separate story, a separate unfinished life.
UNFINISHED LIVES
Families expressed their feelings with the words, "There are no words to describe this pain" for the children who were taken from life at an age that had not even stepped from childhood to adolescence. Thousands attended the ceremony held for the children who should have been in school. However, among the crowd, it was again the parents who carried the heaviest burden. The silence at the head of the coffin was etched in memory as the most pure and shocking expression of the pain of losing a child.