Israel rescuers say four bodies recovered from Iran strike site

Israeli rescue services said Monday that the bodies of four missing people had been recovered from the rubble of a residential building in the city of Haifa, after it was struck by an Iranian missile the previous day. “All four missing persons have been located… All were found without signs of life, and MDA paramedics declared them deceased,” Israel’s emergency service, Magen David Adom, said in a statement. Earlier on Monday, Israeli firefighters had reported locating the bodies of two of the four individuals.

AFP footage showed rescue teams bringing four bodies out one by one on stretchers, wrapped in white shrouds. Dozens of firefighters and medical personnel were deployed to the scene on Sunday evening, shortly after a direct missile strike tore away part of the building. “We have a major destruction site,” said Elad Edri, chief of staff for Israel’s Home Front Command.

Magen David Adom said the attack wounded four other people, including a 10-month-old baby who sustained a head injury. An 82-year-old man was also among the injured, having been struck “by a heavy object and the blast”, according to MDA. A hospital later said he was in stable condition. Images and footage released by MDA on Sunday showed smoke rising from the remains of a heavily damaged building in a densely populated area of Haifa, while rescuers laid out stretchers on the road for casualties.