Missiles were visible from Cyprus for the second consecutive night on Saturday night as Iran and Israel again exchanged fire amid an escalating conflict between the two countries.

Just as they had been the previous night, Cypriot social media channels were flooded with images in the sky visible from the southeast, with the missiles on this occasion visible even from Paphos and Kioneli.

In Israel and Iran, the number of casualties continues to rise, with the Iranian authorities saying on Sunday that a missile brought down a 14-storey apartment block in Tehran, killing 60 people.

Meanwhile, the Iranian authorities also said that Tehran’s Shahran oil depot was also attacked, but that the situation is “under control”.

In Israel, missiles fell on the city of Haifa on Saturday night, with local media reporting that four people had been killed in the nearby town of Tamra.

Haifa, in Israel’s northwest, is closer to Cyprus than either Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.

On Saturday, Iran had, according to reports, warned the United Kingdom, the United States and France that their bases and ships in the region will be targeted if they help to stop its missile strikes on Israel.

News agency Reuters cited Iranian state media as the source of the reports, which were widely picked up by media across the world, though the UK, which operates two sovereign base areas in Cyprus, categorically denied any involvement in Israel’s strikes on Iran or its defence from Iranian retaliatory fire.

“Let me say clearly and unequivocally that Russia’s claims that the British sovereign bases on the island of Cyprus were in any way involved is nonsense. It is deeply irresponsible at moments like this for Russia to be spreading disinformation,” the UK’s permanent representative to the United Nations Barbara Woodward said on Saturday.