Two people injured in Iranian drone attack in Bahrain after ceasefire announcement, highlighting continuing tensions despite US-Iran truce
Manama: Two people were injured in Iranian attacks on Bahrain, the Gulf state’s interior ministry said on Wednesday, hours after the United States announced a ceasefire with Iran.
“Two civilians suffered minor injuries and several houses were damaged in the Sitra area as a result of shrapnel falling from the Iranian drone’s interception,” the ministry said in a statement.
Earlier, both Tehran and Washington said they had agreed to a two-week ceasefire barely an hour before President Donald Trump’s deadline to denuclearize Iran expired.
Explosions were heard in the Bahraini capital, Manama, on Wednesday morning, according to an AFP journalist who saw smoke rising from an area on Sitra island, which hosts Bahrain’s major energy facilities.
In an earlier statement the Interior Ministry said civil defense teams succeeded in controlling a fire at a facility “targeted by the Iranian offensive”, without elaborating on the location of the facility.
Shortly after the ceasefire was announced, Qatar’s Defense Ministry also announced that it was dealing with the missile threat.
Before the ceasefire was publicized, Doha’s Interior Ministry said four people, including a child, had been injured by falling debris from an earlier intercepted missile salvo.
The Gulf states have faced repeated drone and missile attacks from Iran in recent weeks in response to US and Israeli attacks that began in late February.
Iran targeted fossil fuel infrastructure in the oil-rich Gulf states, while effectively closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz to shipping, through which a fifth of global oil typically passes.
