{"id":44130,"date":"2026-03-16T09:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=44130"},"modified":"2026-03-16T09:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:45:31","slug":"fire-contained-in-vicinity-of-dubai-airport-after-drone-attack-flights-suspended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/fire-contained-in-vicinity-of-dubai-airport-after-drone-attack-flights-suspended\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire contained in vicinity of Dubai airport after drone attack, flights suspended"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters : A fire caused by a \u200cdrone attack on Monday near Dubai International Airport had been contained with no injuries reported, but \u200bflights were temporarily suspended, Dubai authorities \u200bsaid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A drone incident in the vicinity of \u2060Dubai International Airport (DXB) affected one of the \u200bfuel tanks&#8221;, the Dubai media office said \u200bon X.<\/p>\n<p>Emirates airline also announced in a post on X the temporary suspension of flights to and \u200bfrom Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Gulf Arab states have faced more \u200bthan 2,000 missile and drone attacks since the outbreak \u200cof \u2060the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran on February 28, with targets including U.S. diplomatic missions and military bases but also critical Gulf \u200boil infrastructure, \u200bports, airports, \u2060hotels and residential and office buildings.<\/p>\n<p>The United Arab Emirates, which normalised \u200brelations with Iran&#8217;s arch-foe Israel in \u200b2020, \u2060has faced the brunt of the attacks. But all Gulf Arab states have been \u2060affected, \u200band all have condemned Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Reporting \u200bby Yomna Ehab and Menna Alaa El Din; Editing \u200bby Christopher Cushing, Jacqueline Wong and Lincoln Feast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters : A fire caused by a \u200cdrone attack on Monday near Dubai International Airport had been contained with no injuries reported, but \u200bflights were temporarily suspended, Dubai authorities \u200bsaid. &#8220;A drone incident in the vicinity of \u2060Dubai International Airport (DXB) affected one of the \u200bfuel tanks&#8221;, the Dubai media office said \u200bon X. Emirates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44133,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44130\/revisions\/44133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}