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Tehran.- At least 935 people, including 38 children, died in Iran in the twelve-day war with Israel, Iranian authorities reported this Monday, almost a week after the ceasefire came into effect.
“According to the latest forensic statistics, 935 deaths have been identified so far in the 12-day war, 38 of them children and 132 women, some of them pregnant,” said the spokesman for the Judiciary, Asghar Jahangir, in statements collected by the IRNA agency.
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So far, Iranian authorities had reported 627 deaths and 4,870 injuries, figures from June 25, a day after the end of the war.
For its part, the human rights organization Hrana, a group critical of the Iranian government and based in the United States, reported 1,054 deaths - at least 417 of them civilians - and almost 4,500 injured. Information on the number of dead and wounded has been handled with caution in both Iran and Israel, where 28 people have officially died. Israel began its attacks against Iran in the early hours of June 13 with a wave of bombings against nuclear and military installations of the Persian country, a campaign that intensified by attacking targets in different parts of the country, including the capital. For its part, Iran responded with ballistic missiles and drones against targets primarily in central and northern Israel. The US President, Donald Trump, announced a ceasefire between Iran and Israel on June 24, which both countries confirmed and which has been maintained until now.
