March 9 (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 9, after more than a week of the war. Reuters has not independently verified these deaths.
* IRANAt least 1,230 people have been 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.The Iranian army has said that at least 104 people were killedafter a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’scoast last week. Those deaths were not included in the tollgiven by the Red Crescent. * ISRAELThe military said two soldiers were killed insouthern Lebanon, the first fatalities among its troops sincehostilities with Hezbollah resumed last week after the groupattacked Israel in support of Iran.Eleven civilians have beenkilled, including nine people in an Iranian missile strike onBeit Shemesh near Jerusalem on March 1, according to Israel’sambulance service Magen David Adom. * UNITED STATESSeven servicemembers have been killed inaction during operations against Iran, the U.S. military said. * LEBANONAt least 394 people have been killed in Israelistrikes, including 83 children, according to Lebanon’s healthministry. * SAUDI ARABIATwo people were killed when a projectile fellon a residential location in Al-Kharj city, southeast of thecapital Riyadh. * BAHRAINOne person was killed after fire broke out inBahrain’s Salman Industrial City following missile interceptionon March 2, according to the interior ministry. * KUWAITOne child has been killed in Iranian attacks on thecountry, according to Kuwait’s health and foreign ministries.Twointerior ministry officers and two army soldiers were alsokilled on duty, the army said. * OMANOne person was killed after a projectile hit theMarshall Islands–flagged product tanker MKD VYOM off the coastof Muscat. * UNITED ARAB EMIRATESFour people have been killed,according to UAE’s defense ministry. * SYRIAFour people were killed when an Iranian missilestruck a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida onFebruary 28, state news agency SANA said. * IRAQAt least 15 people have been killed, according toIraqi police and health officials.One commander from IslamicResistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran-backed armedfactions, was killed in an airstrike on his vehicle on March 5,police sources told Reuters.
(Compiled by Nayera Abdallah, Jonathan Allen, Jana Choukeir, Menna Alaa El Din, Maayan Lubell, Pesha Magid and Ahmed Rasheed; Editing by Don Durfee, Cynthia Osterman, Aidan Lewis)
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