DUBAI, Mar 16: Missiles and drone attacks struck across the UAE on Monday, disrupting travel at Dubai airport, causing a fire in a crucial oil hub in the east and killing one civilian.
Even the usually quiet northern emirate of Umm Al Quwain was not spared, with a drone attack damaging an unspecified building but inflicting no casualties, authorities said.
The slew of attacks came a day after Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said US bases in the Middle East were used to bomb it and that missiles had been launched from the UAE to strike Kharg Island. UAE officials have denied the claim.
In the eastern emirate of Fujairah, a drone attack on oil infrastructure sparked a fire, days after an AFP journalist saw smoke rising from a major Emirati energy installation there.
A Palestinian civilian was killed on the outskirts of the Emirati capital Abu Dhabi when a missile hit z car, the Abu Dhabi Media Office said in a statement.
The UAE has reported seven deaths since the war began, including five civilians and two military personnel, who died in a helicopter crash blamed on a technical malfunction. �"AFP
