Nine killed in Iranian missile strike on Beit Shemesh

At least nine people have been killed after an Iranian missile strike on the central Israeli city of Beit Shemesh.

The attack comes as Tehran continues to launch retaliatory attacks a day after the US and Israel assassinated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and killed at least 110 children at Minab girls' school.

At least nine people have been killed after an Iranian missile strike on the central Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, as Tehran continued to launch retaliatory attacks a day after Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in US-Israeli strikes.

The Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said on Sunday that nine people were killed and 20 other people were injured by the impact, including two in serious condition.

Dozens of Israeli rescue personnel were deployed to the site of the impact, and an AFP photographer saw teams removing a body from the rubble of the building that bore the brunt of the missile strike.

"They are bringing all kinds of equipment to try to locate people," said another AFP photographer at the scene of the attack.

"Apparently, there are still people underneath," he added, as rescue teams continued their search.

Photographs from the scene showed a house destroyed by the blast, its roof reduced to mangled concrete and twisted iron bars.

Rescue teams continued searching for survivors beneath the debris.