TEHRAN: A U.S. missile strike hit a residential home hosting a wedding celebration in southern Iran on Tuesday, killing four people including a child and wounding more than 50 others, the Iranian Red Crescent said.
Shrapnel from the attack struck the home in the city of Kuhestak, in Sirik county of Hormozgan province, where a wedding was taking place, the organization said in a post on X.
“More than 50 people were injured and four people, including a young child, were martyred,” the Red Crescent said.
A four-year-old child is among those killed in the US attack on a Sirik wedding on Tuesday night.
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A video shared by an Iranian government account showed extensive debris and damage at what it said was the site of the wedding following the strike, with people heard screaming in the background.
Hormozgan Deputy Governor Ahmad Nafisi earlier told state television that two people had been killed and a number of others wounded.
Sirik county lies along the strategic Strait of Hormuz, a vital global shipping route.
The United States said it was conducting strikes against targets of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in response to “recent attempted attacks … against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region”.
It was not immediately clear what the U.S. was targeting in Sirik county.
Iranian media reported explosions in multiple cities along and east of the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, as well as at an airport in the southern Kerman province.
Iran has been at war with the United States since Feb. 28, when U.S.-Israeli strikes killed the Islamic republic’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and senior military officials. Iran retaliated with attacks across the region.
The initial bombardment campaign lasted nearly 40 days, but sporadic attacks, mainly around the Strait of Hormuz, have continued, dimming prospects for a final peace agreement.
