Vance attends dignified transfer of US soldier killed in Iran war

The remains of a U.S. soldier killed in action in the war with Iran arrived at an air force base in Delaware on Monday (March 9) during a dignified transfer ceremony attended by Vice President JD Vance.

The U.S. Department of Defense identified the soldier as Sergeant Benjamin Pennington, 26, from Kentucky, adding that he died on Sunday (March 8) from injuries sustained during an attack on U.S. troops at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia.

Pennington’s death brings the number of U.S. troops killed in action so far in the war with Iran to seven, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

At least 1,230 people have been killed in U.S. and Israel’s attacks on Iran, including 175 schoolgirls and staff killed in a missile strike on a primary school in Minab in the country's south on the war's first day, according to the non-profit humanitarian group Iranian Red Crescent Society.

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