One person has been killed in an Iranian attack in Bahrain, as regional countries including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates continue to intercept drones and missiles from Iran.
A 29-year-old woman was killed and eight people injured when a residential building in Bahrain’s capital Manama was hit, the country’s Ministry of Interior said on Tuesday.
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The attack came after Bahrain’s Ministry of Health reported on Monday that two people, including several children, were wounded in an Iranian drone attack on the island of Sitra, south of Manama. Bahrain said on Tuesday that its air defences had intercepted and destroyed 105 missiles and 176 drones launched against it by Iran.
In a statement, the General Command of the Bahrain Defence Force said its air defence systems continued to respond to “heinous” Iranian attacks.
Separately on Tuesday morning, incoming missile sirens sounded in the UAE’s Dubai city. Later, authorities in Abu Dhabi were responding to a fire caused by a drone attack at a facility in the Ruwais industrial complex, the emirate’s media office said. No injuries were reported.
At the same time, the Saudi Ministry of Defence said it had destroyed two drones over the kingdom’s oil-rich eastern region; in Kuwait, the National Guard said it shot down six drones attacking the country’s northern and southern areas; and in Qatar, the armed forces intercepted a missile attack targeting the country.
Iran’s latest attacks on neighbouring Gulf states come as United States President Donald Trump told Republican lawmakers late on Monday that the US-Israeli war on Iran was likely to be a “short excursion”.
But hours later, Trump threatened in a post on social media that the US would dramatically increase attacks if Iran tried to close the Strait of Hormuz.
In addition to firing missiles and drones at Israeli and US bases in the Gulf region, Iran has been attacking energy infrastructure, which, combined with its stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, has sent oil prices soaring.