Videos from southern Iran show the aftermath of what Iranian officials claim was a deadly U.S. strike that hit a wedding party at a home.
Iranian authorities said the strike killed at least four people and wounded dozens more. A spokesman for U.S. Central Command said the military was looking into the allegations and that the U.S. doesn’t target civilians.
On Wednesday morning, the Iranian Red Crescent shared a video apparently filmed from above after daybreak, showing a hole in the roof of a house at the wedding site, with wreckage and rubble strewn across nearby alleyways.
In a separate video carried by state media, the father of the bride, Ali Mallahi, called it «a very saddening incident.»
«I really don’t know what to say,» he said. «Thank God the casualties were not higher.»
Other footage carried by Iranian media showed wounded children lying in hospital beds.
One man, apparently suffering from a head injury and lying in a hospital bed, said he was on his way to the wedding when he heard fighter jets overhead.
«As we arrived there, an explosion happened. It was really powerful, so powerful that even before I arrived there, pieces and debris from the building smashed into my head and face and I passed out,» the unnamed man said in a video carried by local media.
«Lots of children and women were horribly injured. All the people were ordinary people,» he added.
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