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Scores of people have been killed in the Middle East since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28; Gulf states and Lebanon, which host US military bases and personnel, were quickly drawn into the conflict.

The war death toll reported by countries as of March 5, the sixth day of the war, is as follows: Reuters has not independently confirmed these deaths.

Iranian

On the first day of the war, a missile attack on a primary school in Minab in the south of the country killed at least 1,230 people, including 175 female students and staff, according to the nonprofit humanitarian organization Iranian Red Crescent. It is unclear whether the total death toll includes military casualties of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Israel

Ten civilians, including nine people, were killed in an Iranian missile attack on Beit Shemesh near Jerusalem on March 1, according to Israeli ambulance service Magen David Adom. The Israel Defense Forces did not report any military casualties.

Lebanon

At least 77 people died in Israeli attacks, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.

bahrain

According to the interior ministry, one person died in a fire that broke out after the missiles were stopped in Bahrain’s Salman Industrial City.

Kuwait

According to the Kuwaiti ministries of health and foreign affairs, three people, including two Kuwaiti soldiers, died in Iranian attacks on the country.

Oman

One person lost his life as a result of a bullet hitting the Marshall Islands-flagged product tanker MKD VYOM off the coast of Muscat.

United Arab Emirates

Three people died, according to the UAE defense ministry.

United States

Six US soldiers were killed in an attack on a facility in Kuwait, according to US Central Command.

Syria

State news agency SANA reported that four people were killed on Saturday when an Iranian missile hit a building in the southern Syrian city of Sweida.

Iraq

According to Iraqi health authorities, at least 13 people were killed, including 11 militiamen, one army soldier and one civilian, according to medical records figures.

Reuters