Hyderabad, July 18 -- A US strike on water desalination facilities in Iran's coastal Bunji village has disrupted drinking water supplies to 20 villages with a combined population of around 10,000 people, according to Iranian officials, as fighting between Washington and Tehran continued to intensify on Saturday, July 18.

Hamzeh Pour, chief executive of the Hormozgan Water and Wastewater Company, was quoted by Tasnim News Agency as saying that the attack completely destroyed the seawater pumping station and a power transformer at the Bunji desalination plant in Jask County.

Pour described the strike as part of "a series of crimes and terrorist attacks", saying the damage had left 20 villages facing a severe drinking water shortage.

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