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BBC Breakfast shares ‘devastating’ deaths announcement minutes into show

BBC Breakfast’s Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden returned to our TV screens on Sunday’s (March 1) morning to deliver the day’s headlines

BBC Breakfast’s latest broadcast started with a distressing news update on the “most devastating offensive operation in history”.

During Sunday’s (March 1) episode of the BBC hit show, Roger Johnson and Rachel Burden returned to our screens as they delivered the day’s top headline stories from the UK and around the globe.

However, just moments into the live broadcast, Roger shared the news that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been killed following US-Israeli strikes on Tehran.

Rachel also revealed: “The Red Crescent says more than 200 people have been killed in the strikes with state media reporting at least 85 deaths following one air strike on a school in Iran.

“Overnight the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps warned it would attack US bases and Israel in retaliation for Khamenei’s death with what it called ‘the most devastating offensive operation in history of the Islamic Republic.”

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