The United Arab Emirates has intercepted three missiles fired from Iran over its territorial waters, with a fourth one crashing into the sea, the Gulf country’s defence ministry said in a post on X on Monday.
It comes after authorities in the United Arab Emirates’ Fujairah said on Monday that a fire broke out at the Fujairah Oil Industry Zone following what they described as a drone attack originating from Iran.
Civil defence teams were deployed immediately to contain the blaze, Fujairah Media office said in a statement.
Two people were injured when a residential building was targeted in Oman’s Bukha along the coastline of the strait of Hormuz, state media reported.
“A security source reported that a residential building for employees of a company in the Tibat area of Bukha was targete