TEHRAN:The United States and Israel hit five oil facilities with overnight strikes in and near the Iranian capital that killed four people, an official told state TV on Sunday.

“Last night, four oil depots and a petroleum products transport center in Tehran and the Alborz were attacked by enemy aircraft,” the CEO of the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company, Keramat Veyskarami, told state TV.

“Four of our personnel, including two oil tanker drivers, were killed in the incident,” he added, saying facilities “were damaged” but the “fire was brought under control.”

Smoke from fires overnight hung over the capital, casting a dark haze across the city as morning broke.

Residents reported the smell of burning lingered in the air.

Veyskarami said Iran’s oil depots have “sufficient gasoline reserves.”

Israel’s military confirmed that it hit the fuel storage facilities in Tehran.

Associated Press video showed the horizon glowing against the night sky above Tehran. It appeared to be the first time a civil industrial facility has been targeted in the war.

State media blamed “an attack from the US and the Zionist regime” at the facility that supplies the capital and neighboring provinces in the north.

Agencies