Kuwait refinery hit again by Iran
Drone attacks caused fire at Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery on Friday, state media reported, as authorities in several Gulf states said they were responding to attacks from Iran.
The refinery had previously been hit on Thursday, igniting fires.
Iran has kept up retaliatory fire on Israel and Gulf nations, including attacks on oil and gas facilities that have exacerbated concerns of a global energy supply shock.
The official Kuwait News Agency, citing the national oil company, said “several hostile drone attacks” hit the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery, causing fires but no casualties.
It said firefighters were working to contain the blazes while “several refinery units were shut down.”
No injuries
Earlier on Friday, Bahrain’s interior ministry said that shrapnel from an “Iranian aggression” caused a fire at a warehouse, which was brought under control and resulted in no injuries.
In Kuwait, an army statement said air defenses were “responding to hostile missile and drone threats,” while the United Arab Emirates (UAE) state media reported “incoming missile and drone threats from Iran.”
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by the Tasnim news agency that they had targeted US forces in the UAE’s Al-Dhafra air base as well as sites in Israel with missiles and drones.
Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said that within about two hours, its forces had “intercepted and destroyed” more than a dozen drones in the country’s east and another in the north.
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