March 5 (Reuters) – Scores of people have been killed across the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, with Gulf states that host U.S. military bases and personnel as well as Lebanon quickly drawn into the conflict. Here are the death tolls from the war as reported by countries […]
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March 5 (Reuters) – Scores of people have been killed across the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on February 28, with Gulf states that host U.S. military bases and personnel as well as Lebanon quickly drawn into the conflict.
Here are the death tolls from the war as reported by countries as of March 5, the sixth day of the war. Reuters has not independently verified these deaths.
* IRANAt least 1,230 people killed, including 175schoolgirls and staff killed in a missile strike on a primaryschool in Minab in the country’s south on the war’s first day,according to the non-profit humanitarian group Iranian RedCrescent Society. It was unclear if the overall death tollincluded Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps military casualties. * ISRAELTen civilians killed, including nine people in anIranian missile strike on Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on March1, according to Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom. TheIsrael Defense Forces has not reported any military casualties. * LEBANONAt least 77 people killed in Israeli strikes,according to Lebanon’s health ministry. * BAHRAINOne person killed after fire broke out in Bahrain’sSalman Industrial City following missile interception, accordingto the interior ministry. * KUWAITThree people, including two Kuwaiti soldiers, killedin Iranian attacks on the country, according to Kuwait’s healthand foreign ministries. * OMANOne person killed after a projectile hit the MarshallIslands–flagged product tanker MKD VYOM off the coast of Muscat. * UNITED ARAB EMIRATESThree people killed, according toUAE’s defense ministry. * U.S. MILITARYSix U.S. service members were killed in astrike on a facility in Kuwait, according to U.S. CentralCommand. * SYRIAFour people were killed when an Iranian missilestruck a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida onSaturday, state news agency SANA said.• IRAQAt least 13 peoplewere killed, according to Iraqi health authorities, including 11militiamen, one army soldier and one civilian, based on healthregistration figures.
(Compiled by Jonathan Allen, Jana Choukeir, Menna Alaa El Din, Maayan Lubell, Pesha Magid and Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Don Durfee, Cynthia Osterman, Aidan Lewis)