Drones targeted an Omani port, injuring one worker, official media said Sunday, marking the first attack on the sultanate — which has mediated US-Iran talks — since Tehran began its retaliation campaign in the Gulf.
Iran’s attacks on the Gulf have raised fears of a wider conflict and rattled a region long seen as a haven of peace and security in the turbulent Middle East.
“A security source reported that the commercial port of Duqm was targeted by two drones,” the Oman News Agency said in a post on X.
“One drone struck a mobile workers’ accommodation, injuring one foreign worker, while debris from the other landed near fuel tanks, causing no casualties or material damage,” it added.
The second day of strikes comes on the heels of deadly attacks, with two civilians killed in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi as Iran targeted military bases but also civilian infrastructure across the Gulf on Saturday.
Earlier Sunday, AFP reporters heard blasts in Dubai, the Bahraini capital Manama and in Qatar, where thick black smoke was seen rising on the clear morning horizon in the south of Doha.
Two people were injured when debris from intercepted drones fell on homes in Dubai, authorities said, and waves of blasts reverberated through Dubai and Doha later in the morning.
An AFP correspondent saw thick black smoke rising from Dubai’s southern Jebel Ali Port on Sunday morning, after authorities said debris from an interceptor had sparked a fire overnight.
Early Sunday, drones also struck the airport in Bahrain’s capital Manama, causing minor damage, authorities said.
Palm, Burj Al Arab
On Saturday, across the UAE, Iran fired 137 missiles and 209 drones at the country, the UAE defence ministry said, with fires and smoke seen at landmarks The Palm and Burj Al Arab.
At the airport in Abu Dhabi, at least one person was killed and seven wounded during what authorities called an “incident”.
Dubai airport, the world’s busiest for international traffic, and Kuwait’s airport, were also hit.
Earlier on Saturday, falling debris killed a Pakistani civilian in Abu Dhabi, officials said.
In Qatar, host of the region’s biggest US military base, officials said Iran had launched 65 missiles and 12 drones towards the Gulf state, most of which were intercepted, but eight people were injured, with one in critical condition.
On the first day of the strikes Saturday, smoke rose from US bases in Abu Dhabi and Manama, home of the American navy’s Fifth Fleet, witnesses said, with US bases also targeted in Kuwait.
The oil-and-gas-rich Arab monarchies, lying just across the Gulf from Iran, are long-term American allies and host a clutch of US military bases.
In Manama, the Iranian attacks saw drones and shrapnel slam into residential buildings, while Saturday’s unprecedented barrage also targeted Riyadh and eastern Saudi Arabia.