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Mourners in Minab buried the schoolgirls and staff on March 3.
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Mahsa Alimardani, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health care center in southern Sudan on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
At least 175 people, including a large number of young schoolgirls, were killed in the attack.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
The real threat to Americans is our headlong rush toward normalizing blatant murder, whether that be of nameless occupants of motorboats in the Caribbean, schoolgirls in Iran or United States citizens in the streets of Minneapolis.
—Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
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Mahsa Alimardani, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2026
An explosive-laden drone blamed on Sudanese paramilitaries struck a secondary school and a health care center in southern Sudan on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people, mostly schoolgirls, a hospital official and a medical group said.
—Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2026
At least 175 people, including a large number of young schoolgirls, were killed in the attack.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 11 Mar. 2026
The real threat to Americans is our headlong rush toward normalizing blatant murder, whether that be of nameless occupants of motorboats in the Caribbean, schoolgirls in Iran or United States citizens in the streets of Minneapolis.
—Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
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“Schoolgirl.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/schoolgirl. Accessed 22 Mar. 2026.
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schoolgirl
noun
school·girl
-ˌgər(-ə)l 
: a girl attending school
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