At least seven students have lost their lives in 40 days since the beginning of the fall semester
Mobina Hamsian, an architecture student at Yazd University originally from Isfahan, has died after several days in a coma following a rooftop fall.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, October 29, 2025, during a practical class for the course “Survey of Historical Buildings” held in a traditional house on Basij Boulevard in Yazd.
Hamsian fell through a skylight while conducting fieldwork exercises on the roof of the building. She suffered a severe head injury resulting in brain trauma. Despite being transferred to a hospital, medical efforts to save her life were unsuccessful.
One of the students present at the scene stated that no safety equipment had been provided during the class, and the teaching environment lacked even basic protective standards.
Hamsian’s death has once again drawn attention to the alarming lack of safety measures in Iran’s educational and university environments. In just forty days since the start of the fall semester of 2025, at least seven student deaths have been reported across Iranian universities — including death of three students in a bus crash at Semnan University, one fatality in a laboratory at the University of Tehran, two suspicious deaths at Azad Universities in Tabriz and Yazd, and now, the tragic death of architecture student Mobina Hamsian at Yazd University.
