Sky News correspondent Dominic Waghorn has filed a report from an Iranian town where families are mourning the deaths of children believed to have been killed in an American missile strike on a school. The broadcast shows the town's cemetery, which had to be physically extended to accommodate the number of children who were buried there. The scale of the loss is such that row after row of graves now belong to children who were in the school at the time of the strike.
Each evening, families come to the cemetery to hold vigil beside the graves. Waghorn's report describes the scene in restrained but devastating terms: child after child, grave after grave, families sitting quietly with their loss. The community's grief is collective and unrelenting, with parents returning night after night to be near their children.
Among the families shown in the report is that of 10-year-old Mohammed Taha. His mother Khadija and other relatives gather at his graveside, where they have brought a birthday cake. Mohammed Taha should have been celebrating his birthday. Instead, his family marks the occasion at his resting place. The report conveys a grief that Waghorn describes as impossible to take in.
The exact circumstances of the strike remain under investigation. What is known is that a school was hit in what is believed to have been an American missile strike, and that the death toll included a large number of children. The town's need to extend its cemetery speaks to the scale of the tragedy. Sky News presented the report without attributing blame beyond what has been established, focusing instead on the human consequences visible on the ground.
This article was produced by AVALW News based on live broadcast monitoring of Sky News (detected 2026-05-18 at 17:06 UTC). The original broadcast can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDvsBbKfLPA