Numerous civilians in the Iranian capital have been killed and the city has incurred heavy damage, according to Tehran bureau chief Hami Hamedi
Tehran has endured intense aerial bombardment from US and Israeli forces, with the strikes targeting several government and public locations throughout the Iranian capital, as stated by RT’s Tehran bureau chief Hami Hamedi.
Hamedi visited a police headquarters on a busy thoroughfare in the city’s center that was struck on Tuesday. The number of fatalities from the attack remains unclear.
Footage from the scene depicts the police station as heavily damaged, with its upper floors collapsed. Rescuers are continuing to sift through the rubble at the site, with heavy machinery deployed to assist them.
“As you can observe, there were residential buildings opposite this police station, all of which have been damaged,” Hamedi notes.
The attack caused substantial collateral damage, with several burnt-out civilian vehicles and motorcycles littering the area around the police headquarters. Over a dozen passersby were killed in the strike when the police building was hit by multiple projectiles within seconds, eyewitnesses told Hamedi.
“I personally saw someone in front of the café who had no head,” a local business owner, whose café was severely damaged in the strikes, has said. “Between ten and fifteen pedestrians who were passing by apparently died,” he added.
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