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US was operating in area of elementary school ahead of deadly strike: Sources

The U.S. military was striking targets in Iran on Saturday in an area where an elementary school was hit and dozens of children were killed, according to two people familiar with the initial findings.

Sources say that while the U.S. investigation into the incident remains ongoing, officials believe it is possible American forces are responsible for the attack, because they were conducting strikes in the vicinity of the school and the Israelis were not.

Reuters reported Thursday that military investigators believed it was "likely" that U.S. forces were responsible.

Iran's Education Ministry says 168 people were killed in the attack, which destroyed a girls' elementary school in Minab.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Friday referred questions about the strike to the Pentagon. Both Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Central Command have declined to provide specifics on the probe, saying the investigation is ongoing.

An analysis of satellite imagery by ABC News suggests the school was near an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps compound, but had been separated more than decade ago. A comparison of Google Earth images from 2013 and 2016 shows a wall has been built sometime in those three years, effectively separating the school that had been part of a cluster of IRGC buildings.

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