Dubai resort fireplace: Blaze breaks out at Fairmont Hotel in Palm Jumeirah throughout missile assault | EUROtoday

A hearth has damaged out close to the doorway of a world well-known Dubai resort throughout an Iranian missile strike, social media footage seems to indicate, because the Tehran regimes carries out retaliatory strikes following a sequence of US and Israeli assaults.

Footage verified by The Independent reveals the second a missile struck exterior the Fairmont The Palm resort in Dubai’s status Palm Jumeirah space.

Explosions have been heard in Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan and Qatar after the Iranian regime warned it will retaliate to any strikes by the US and Israeli – which have been launched final night time.

When The Independent tried to contact the resort, there was no reply.

Iranian state media has reported dozens of deaths throughout the nation following the US-Israeli strikes, which got here after months of threats from US president Donald Trump.

This contains at the very least 53 individuals who have been reportedly killed at a ladies’ faculty. Tehran authorities mentioned 15 folks have been killed in a sports activities corridor within the Fars province.

One individual has been killed on account of falling particles in Abu Dhabi, whereas sirens are sounding throughout Israel with residents warned to take shelter.

Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu launched co-ordinated strikes throughout Iran in what they described as a “preventative attack”.

President Donald Trump confirmed a “major combat operation” in an eight-minute speech, stating Iran might by no means have a nuclear weapon and including: “It’s been mass terror, and we’re not going to take it any longer.”

Witnesses mentioned they heard the blasts within the Iranian capital, whereas footage seems to indicate columns of smoke rising above the town.

Iran and Israel have closed their airspace, whereas officers in Tehran mentioned their supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has been transferred to a safe location.

Airlines on Saturday cancelled about half of their flights to Qatar and Israel and about 28 per cent of their flights to Kuwait, in keeping with preliminary knowledge from the supplier Cirium. In complete, about 24 per cent of flights to the Middle East have been cancelled.

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