Buildings in Tehran severely damaged in overnight strike
Iran’s Red Crescent Society said Friday that rescue workers were busy searching for survivors and rescuing the injured after an overnight airstrike in Tehran.
“Residential areas in Tehran were targeted by airstrikes and Red Crescent operations teams were immediately dispatched to the scene to provide relief to affected residents,” IRCS said in a statement.
Photos from the scene show heavily damaged high-rise buildings and debris on the street as emergency responders climbed ladders to upper floors around dawn.
IRCS said footage showed civilians trapped under rubble, a dusty children’s bicycle in the background and emergency workers climbing the stairs of a damaged building to search for survivors.
Emergency responders search for survivors in a damaged building after an overnight attack in Tehran
The Israeli military announced on Friday that it had launched a “major wave of attacks” against Tehran, targeting what it called Iranian regime infrastructure.
Since the war began on February 28, airstrikes have damaged more than 87,000 civilian units across the country, about 66,000 of which are residential buildings, according to IRCS.
The US-based Human Rights Defenders News Agency (HRANA) said on Thursday that Israeli and US attacks on Iran have so far killed at least 1,492 civilians (including 221 children) and 1,167 military personnel, adding that hundreds of other deaths were yet to be recorded.
