March 3 (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 and Lebanon quickly drawn into the conflict.
Here are the death tolls from the war so far as reported by involved countries as of March 3, the fourth day of the war. Reuters has not independently verified these deaths.
* IRAN787 people killed, including 165 schoolgirls and staffkilled in a missile strike on a primary school in Minab in thecountry’s south on the war’s first day, according to thenon-profit humanitarian group Iranian Red Crescent Society. Itwas unclear if the death toll included Islamic RevolutionaryGuard Corps military casualties. * ISRAEL10 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 reported no military casualties. * LEBANON40 people killed in Israeli missile 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. * KUWAITOne person killed, according to Kuwait’s healthministry. Separately, the Kuwaiti army said that two soldierswere killed “in military operations,” without providing detailson the circumstances of their death. * 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.
(Compiled by Jonathan Allen, Menna Alaa El Din, Maayan Lubell, Pesha Magrid; Editing by Don Durfee and Cynthia Osterman)
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