Bahrain reports injuries and property damage in Sitra as debris from intercepted Iranian drone falls on residential area, officials say. [Getty]
Iranian attacks on Bahrain injured two people, the Gulf kingdom’s interior ministry said on Wednesday, hours after the United States announced a ceasefire with Iran.
“Two citizens sustained minor injuries and a number of houses were damaged in the Sitra area as a result of shrapnel falling from the interception of an Iranian drone,” the ministry said in a statement.
Earlier both Tehran and Washington said they had agreed to a two-week ceasefire barely an hour before President Donald Trump’s deadline to obliterate Iran was set to expire.
On Wednesday morning explosions were heard in Bahrain’s capital Manama, according to news agency AFP, while smoke was reportedly rising from an area on Sitra island that hosts Bahrain’s principal energy facilities.
In an earlier statement the interior ministry said civil defence crews had succeeded in controlling a fire that broke out in a facility “targeted by the Iranian aggression”, without elaborating on the location of the facility.
Shortly after the ceasefire was announced, Qatar’s defence ministry also announced it was dealing with a missile threat.
Before the truce was publicised, Doha’s interior ministry said falling debris from an earlier intercepted missile salvo had injured four people, including one child.
Kuwait on Wednesday reported Iranian attacks that have been ongoing from 8am local time and damaged power and desalination plants as well as oil facilities, hours after a Iran-US truce came into effect.
“Since 8:00 AM (0500 GMT) today, Kuwaiti air defences have been engaging an intense wave of hostile Iranian attacks, dealing with 28 drones targeting the State of Kuwait,” Kuwait’s military said in a statement on X.
It said it “intercepted a large number of these hostile drones” but that the attacks caused “significant material damage to oil facilities, power plants and water desalination plants”.
The United Arab Emirates said it was also dealing with missiles and drones coming from Iran on Wednesday, after authorities in Abu Dhabi said that falling debris following an interception had injured three people and forced a halt in production following fires at a gas complex in the emirate.
The government’s media office said in a statement the incident at Habshan gas-processing facility “was caused by falling debris, following a successful interception by air defence systems, resulting in multiple fires and minor injuries to two Emiratis and one Indian national”.
Gulf countries have faced repeated drone and missile barrages from Iran over recent weeks in response to the US and Israeli strikes that began at the end of February.
Iran targeted fossil fuel infrastructure in the oil-rich Gulf nations while effectively closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz to shipping, through which one-fifth of global oil usually passes.
