At least 201 people have been killed in US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Iran’s Red Crescent Society has said.
The Red Crescent, a health organisation similar to the Red Cross, disclosed this in an interview with Mehr news agency, Al Jazeera reports.
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“A spokesperson for Iran’s Red Crescent Society has told Mehr news agency that US and Israeli attacks have hit 24 of Iran’s provinces, killing at least 201 people and wounding 747 people,” Al Jazeera reports. “The spokesperson said that more than 220 Red Crescent teams are present at the targeted sites, and rescue operations continue.”
PREMIUM TIMES reports that the victims include over 40 schoolgirls killed in a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Iran.
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The strike occurred at a girls’ elementary school in Minab, in the Hormozgan province of Southern Iran.
It is unclear which of the US and Israel carried out the strike on the school.
The strike on the school is one of many carried out by the US and Israel on Iran early Saturday, days after nuclear negotiations between the US and Iran.
Retaliatory strikes by Iran damaged a nine-story building in northern Israel, leaving a man with minor injuries.
Al Jazeera quotes Israel’s Channel 12 as stating that the Iranian missiles were intercepted, but shrapnel hit the building and injured the man.
Israel has barred its citizens and the media from reporting details of the impact of the Iranian strikes, making it difficult to estimate the effect of Iran’s retaliatory strikes.
However, loud sirens continue to blare across Israel as citizens are urged to seek shelter, and schools, airports, and all public facilities are shut.
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Iran has also shut its airspace and closed schools and other public buildings.
Iran has also urged its citizens to leave the capital, Tehran, so they are not affected by the US and Israeli strikes.
“…you should, as far as possible and while maintaining calm, travel to other places and cities if you are able,” Al Jazeera quotes Iran’s National Security Council as saying in a statement.
The latest war started earlier on Saturday when the US and Israel attacked Iran.
Iran has retaliated with attacks on Israel and US bases in the Middle East. One person has been confirmed killed in the UAE from the Iranian missile attacks.
Many of the Middle East countries affected by Iranian retaliatory strikes have condemned the strikes.
