CAIRO — A U.S. missile hit a home in southern Iran where dozens were gathered to celebrate the wedding of a fisherman’s daughter, according to a rights group and Iranian media.
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. There was no explanation for the change. 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 from the town of Minab, where more than 100 children were killed in a U.S. missile strike that hit a primary school on Feb. 28, the opening day of the war launched by the U.S. 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. Just after the strike, Ahmad Nafisi, the province’s deputy governor, had told Iranian state television that five people were killed.
He would not say if the military had launched a formal investigation. U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. 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.
Tim Hawkins said the U.S. military was looking into the reports of the strike on a wedding. So many,” he said in a video posted by the Iranian Red Crescent, which did not identify him. At least two missiles hit the communications tower and another hit a pier at the port, Moein Arjomand, director of the Balochistan Human Rights Documentation Network, told the , citing witnesses who spoke to his group.
