TEHRAN: An Iranian F-5 fighter jet crashed into a school compound in the northwestern city of Tabriz on Monday, killing two crew and a passerby, authorities said.

"Luckily the school was closed because of the Covid-19 pandemic," local official Mohammad-Bagher Honarvar told state television.

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