Middle East conflict rages on
DUBAI
A Pakistani driver was killed in Dubai’s Al Barsha area on Saturday evening after debris from an aerial interception struck his vehicle shortly after Iftar, authorities confirmed. The incident occurred near Sheikh Zayed Road behind the Mall of the Emirates. Officials said the impact sparked a brief fire, but no other injuries were reported.
Authorities have launched an investigation to determine whether the driver received an emergency alert on his mobile phone and if safety instructions were followed. The Al Barsha area is located along Sheikh Zayed Road, one of Dubai’s busiest highways. The fatality raises the toll from the recent attacks to four people, including two Pakistani nationals. Previously, a Pakistani national, Murid Zaman, hailing from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was killed in Abu Dhabi’s Madinat Zayed area. Zaman, as per diplomatic officials, was killed in an Iranian missile strike after being struck by missile fragments. The Middle East region has been pushed into turmoil after the US and Israel launched an attack on Iran, martyring its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and senior military leadership.
Tehran, since then, has responded to the US-Israeli war on Iran by hitting Israel and Gulf Arab states hosting US military installations. Israel has also launched fresh attacks in Lebanon after Hezbollah fired across the border. The US-Israeli attacks have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands, according to Iran’s UN ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani.
US forces were likely responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children, US officials have told Reuters. But Trump, without citing evidence, told reporters on Saturday that Iran was responsible.
