Several people died on Thursday evening in a rocket attack by the U.S. and Israel on the city of Shiraz in the south of Iran," reported the authoritative press agency IRNA, quoted by AFP this morning. According to the state media, the impact occurred in a public place in 1 of the residential districts.
"On Thursday evening, a park in the Zibashahr territory of Shiraz became the mark of a rocket attack carried out by a criminal American-Zionist regime," wrote IRNA in a communication on the Telegram communicator.
The Agency added, citing emergency services, that as a consequence of the incidental "a fewer citizens were killed or injured". It was noted that search and rescue operations and removal of debris are inactive ongoing on site. This is simply a uncommon case erstwhile the state-controlled media so rapidly and openly inform about civilian casualties in the country.
Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province, is 1 of Iran's most crucial cities of cultural importance.
APW, PAP
