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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lauren Gambino

Trump claims Iran or ‘somebody else’ could have carried out deadly school strike

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Trump at his National Doral club in Miami on Monday. Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

As oil prices surged amid the widening war with Iran, Donald Trump suggested, without evidence, on Monday that the strike on an Iranian elementary school could have been carried out by Iran or “somebody else”.

During back-to-back appearances in Florida, Trump was asked whether the US would accept responsibility for a strike that hit the school and killed scores of people, many of them children, after video evidence showed a US Tomahawk struck the naval base next to it.

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