THREE DEAD, SIX INJURED IN ABU DHABI AS HOUTHIS ANNOUNCE OPERATION ‘DEEP IN UAE’

Mon 17 January 2022:

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim responsibility for an attack on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after the Gulf state’s officials reported two fires in Abu Dhabi, probably sparked by drones.

Three fuel tanker trucks exploded in the industrial Musaffah region near ADNOC storage facilities, according to Abu Dhabi police, while a fire broke out at an Abu Dhabi International Airport construction site.

Three dead, six injured in Abu Dhabi as Houthis announce operation ‘deep in UAE’#AbuDhabi #Houthis pic.twitter.com/NSyYGVzcaI

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“Initial investigations found parts of a small plane that could possibly be a drone at both sites that could have caused the explosion and the fire,” the police said in a statement on state news agency WAM.

Three people were killed and six injured in a fuel tanker explosion in Abu Dhabi, state news agency WAM reported.

One Pakistani and two Indian nationals were killed, and six others were wounded with injuries ranging from light to medium, according to WAM.

Meanwhile, the military spokesman of the Houthis, who are battling a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia and includes the UAE, said the group had launched a military operation “deep in the UAE”. More details would be announced in the coming hours, the spokesman added.

The Houthis plan to announce a “qualitative military operation in the UAE in the coming hours,” according to a post from a Twitter account linked to the militia’s spokesperson Yahya Saree.

The UAE intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015 as part of the Arab Coalition. It scaled down its operations in 2019.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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