Houthi drone attack sets UAE fuel tanks ablaze, kills 3

CAIRO – 17 January 2022: Three fuel tanks at Abu Dhabi airport were blasted by drones launched by Yemen's Houthi militia, which declared it stands behind the attack, incurring three deaths, and six injuries.

Abu Dhabi police announced that the fire had been contained, and that the victims are two Indians and a Pakistani, as reported by Sky News Arabia.

The Arab Coalition in Yemen also announced that the launching of drones from Sanaa International Airport on Monday has been detected, and that three of those were intercepted before hitting the Saudi south.

The coalition also declared destroying 21 military vehicles and eliminating 230 terrorists in operations that targeted the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Marib northern Yemen.

In 2019, the Houthi militia claimed sabotaging four oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates. “I think it is clear these (tanker attacks) were naval mines almost certainly from Iran,” Former U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton told reporters in Abu Dhabi but declined to comment on the specifics of the investigation in which the United States was taking part.