Drone strike disrupts Dubai flights as Iran continues Gulf attacks
Al Jazeera
Iran has sought to justify its attacks on Gulf countries, hitting civilian infrastructure as well as US assets.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has announced diversion of some flights from the Dubai international airport, one of the world’s busiest, after a drone attack sparked a fire near the facility, as Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia also reported intercepting drones and missiles.
The Dubai Media Office on Monday said civil defence teams had “successfully contained the fire resulting from impact to one of the fuel tanks in the vicinity” of the airport, noting that no injuries had been reported so far.
Some flights were diverted to Al Maktoum international airport, the office said on X.
The Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, meanwhile, said it was temporarily suspending flights at the airport “as a precautionary measure to ensure the safety of all passengers and staff”. It did not say when they expected flights to resume.
Authorities in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the UAE, are responding to “an incident involving a missile falling on a civilian vehicle in Al Bahyan area”, according to the city’s media office. The incident resulted “in one casualty of Palestinian nationality”, it said in a post on X.
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