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 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 5, the sixth day of the war. Reuters has not independently verified these deaths.
* IRAN1,045 people killed, including 175 schoolgirls andstaff killed in a missile strike on a primary school in Minab inthe country’s south on the war’s first day, according to thenon-profit humanitarian group Iranian Red Crescent Society. Itwas unclear if the overall death toll included IslamicRevolutionary Guard 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 not reported any military casualties. * LEBANON77 people killed in Israeli strikes, according toLebanon’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.
(Compiled by Jonathan Allen, Jana Choukeir, Menna Alaa El Din, Maayan Lubell, Pesha Magrid; Editing by Don Durfee and Cynthia Osterman)
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