Many civilians in the Iranian capital have been killed and the city has suffered heavy damage, according to Tehran bureau chief Hami Hamedi
The city of Tehran has been subjected to heavy aerial bombardment by US and Israeli forces, with the strikes targeting multiple government and public sites across the Iranian capital, according to RT’s Tehran bureau chief, Hami Hamedi.
Hamedi visited a police headquarters on a busy route running through the heart of the city that was bombed on Tuesday. The death toll from the attack remains unclear.
Footage from the scene shows the police station heavily damaged, with its upper floors caved in. Rescuers are still digging through the rubble at the site, with heavy machinery deployed to aid them.
“As you can see, there were residential buildings across from this police station, all of which have been damaged,” Hamedi says.
The attack inflicted heavy collateral damage, with multiple husks of civilian vehicles and motorcycles littering the surroundings of the police headquarters. Over a dozen passersby were killed in the attack when the police building was hit by multiple projectiles in a matter of seconds, eyewitnesses told Hamedi.
“I personally saw someone in front of the cafe who didn’t have a head,” a local business owner, whose cafe was severely damaged in the strikes, has said. “Between ten and fifteen pedestrians who were passing by apparently died,” he added.
