A missile strike in southern Iran has resulted in casualties during a wedding celebration. Reports indicate that a US missile hit a home where dozens had gathered to celebrate the wedding of a fisherman’s daughter. The incident has been confirmed by Iranian media and a rights group, highlighting the ongoing tensions in the region.
Iranian state media said four people – two women and two children – were killed and more than 60 were wounded. One of the children, a teenager, was killed by another strike on a nearby communications tower.
He would not say if the military had launched a formal investigation. Kuhestak is one of a string of small towns that dot the barren coastline along the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint that has become a central front in the six-month war. US Central Command spokesman Capt. There was no explanation for the change. At the hospital in Minab where wounded people were taken, Iranian media showed at least two girls and a woman in bandages. One of the children looked like she was still in shock. “Blocks were falling and hitting people’s heads. And many small children and women that were there were terribly injured.
Iranian state media said four people – two women and two children – were killed and more than 60 were wounded. Kuhestak is located about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the town of Minab, where more than 100 children were killed in a US missile strike that hit a primary school on February 28, the opening day of the war launched by the US and Israel. The state news agency IRNA and state TV said two women and two children, aged 4 and 16, were killed, and at least 68 were wounded.
The rights group said one of the children, a teenager, was killed by another strike on a nearby communications tower. Tim Hawkins said the US military was looking into the reports of the strike on a wedding. Just after the strike, Ahmad Nafisi, the province’s deputy governor, had told Iranian state television that five people were killed. So many,” he said in a video posted by the Iranian Red Crescent, which did not identify him.
