from HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to world@lemmy.world on 25 Jan 20:14
https://sh.itjust.works/post/54095296
By the time I reached the hospital in Tehran on Thursday (8 January) night, the sound of the city had already changed.
Up until a few hours earlier, doctors and patients were still sending me photos on WhatsApp; pellet wounds to the back, the hands, the head. Painful injuries, frightening injuries – but survivable. The kinds of wounds that could be treated, that suggested the violence still had limits. Then, at eight o’clock, everything went dark. Internet, mobile phones, messages, maps – all gone.
Minutes later, the gunfire started. From about 8.10pm or 8.20pm, I could hear shots echoing through the streets, along with screaming and the sound of explosions. I was called into the hospital. By the time I arrived, it was immediately clear that we were no longer dealing with the same situation.
The patients coming in now were not hit by pellets – they had been shot with live ammunition. War bullets. These were not warning shots. These were bullets designed to pass through the body. Bullets that entered on one side and exited from the other.
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