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Kuwait on Saturday said Iran struck another of its power and water plants, leading to several power generation units being deactivated, a day after a similar attack.
“Another electricity and water distillation plant was targeted by a hostile attack that led to a fire erupting in one of the plant’s components,” Kuwait’s ministry of electricity and water said in a statement.
It is the second attack on a power and water plant in as many days, with the first on Friday causing a fire and damage at the facility.
Kuwait’s fire service said attacks by Iran on Saturday sparked blazes at two locations, with several firemen and a worker injured.
The country’s national carrier said most of its flights were being rescheduled as air traffic had been temporarily suspended at Kuwait International Airport due to rocket and drone attacks.
In Bahrain meanwhile, the army said its air defences repelled a wave of Iranian attacks, as an AFP journalist in Manama reported hearing blasts after sirens sounded.
“Air defence systems thwarted” the strikes, the army said in a statement, adding that they “intercepted and destroyed a number of treacherous Iranian aerial assaults”.
Bahrain’s interior ministry said air-raid sirens had sounded five times since dawn, urging residents to take shelter.
The Iranian army earlier said it had targeted an air base in Bahrain used by the United States as retaliation for American strikes, according to Iran’s state broadcaster.
Drones targeted “aircraft shelters and parking areas, fuel storage tanks of the US military at Sheikh Isa Air Base, as well as several connecting bridges in Bahrain”, the Iranian army said.
AFP
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