Three killed in Iranian missile attacks on Israel, Magen David Adom says
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Two people were killed and 21 others injured, four seriously, in an Iranian ballistic missile attack on Rishon Letzion early Saturday morning, raising the death toll to three, Magen David Adom reported.
It said the fatalities were a man aged 45 and a woman aged 60, but their identities have not yet been released for publication.
A woman died from her injuries in the Iranian regime's missile strikes on Israeli cities on Friday, Uri Shacham, chief of staff of Magen David Adom, told JNS.
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