据美国媒体11日报道,美国军方一项正在进行的调查初步认定,伊朗一所小学2月28日遭“战斧”导弹袭击导致大量人员伤亡,系美军“误击”,美方应对此承担责任。

An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to US officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings.

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航拍图像显示,人们正在为在袭击中遇难的伊朗小学儿童挖掘墓穴。图源:法新社

《纽约时报》和网络杂志《截击》报道,初步调查发现,美军在打击邻近这所小学的一处伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队海军基地时“目标定位错误”。一些知情官员说,美军中央司令部人员使用了美国防情报局提供的“过时”数据创建了空袭目标坐标。

The Feb 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the US military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.

知情官员强调,这只是初步调查结果,还有一些重要的问题尚未解答,如为什么没有对过时信息进行复核。

《纽约时报》报道指出,空袭一所满是孩子的学校,“无疑将被记录为近几十年来最严重的军事失误之一”。

Officials emphasised that the findings are preliminary and that there are important unanswered questions about why the outdated information had not been double checked.

Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 165 people, most of them children.

美国总统特朗普11日在白宫接受媒体采访被问及这一初步调查结果时,称“我对此并不了解”。

特朗普9日在一场新闻发布会上表示,美方正在调查这起事件,但同时毫无依据地声称伊朗“也有一些‘战斧’导弹”,再次暗示小学遇袭可能是伊方造成的。

美国和以色列2月28日对伊朗发起大规模军事行动,伊朗南部米纳卜市一所小学遭到袭击,据伊朗媒体报道,至少165人遇难,其中大多是10岁左右的小女孩。美国多家媒体根据8日发布在网络上的一段视频分析判断,一枚“战斧”巡航导弹击中这所小学,而在这场冲突中,唯一使用该型导弹的是美军

来源:新华社 纽约时报

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