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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) intercepted missiles headed towards its capital Abu Dhabi on Monday morning. The UAE’s state-run WAM news agency said that the missiles were intercepted and its fragments fell over the city harming none. The missiles come as tensions soar between the coalition of Gulf nations and Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen, who last week killed three foreign citizens when they launched a drone attack at the Abu Dhabi airport.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack but a report by news agency Reuters said that the missiles were interballistic and the Houthis may have launched the attack. “The remnants of the intercepted ballistic missiles fell in separate areas around Abu Dhabi,” the ministry said in a statement accessed by Reuters.
This was the second attack in a matter of one week led by the Houthis on UAE soil. The Houthis and the coalition led by Saudi Arabia are fighting each other for more than six years leading to high number casualties in impoverished and war torn Yemen as well as on the other side.
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