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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
William Christou and Deepa Parent

‘A bloodbath’: doctors describe carnage at Iran’s hospitals after Israeli strikes

A man carries his wounded child after an Israeli airstrike in central Tehran on Sunday.
A man carries his wounded child after an Israeli airstrike in central Tehran on Sunday. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA

The stream of wounded in Imam Khomeini hospital in Tehran had been steady since Friday. On Sunday evening it became a flood. A renewed wave of Israeli strikes on Iran’s capital overwhelmed the hospital’s emergency unit, turning it into what one doctor described as a “bloodbath”.

“It was a bloodbath. We were overwhelmed by chaos and the screams of grieving family members. Dozens upon dozens of people with life-threatening injuries, minor wounds and even bodies were brought in,” a doctor at the emergency unit of the hospital told the Guardian on Monday under condition of anonymity.

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