Actress:Several people from West Bengal remain stranded in Dubai after tensions escalated in West Asia following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, leading to sudden airspace closures.
Bengali actress Subhashree Ganguly was vacationing in Dubai with her minor son when the war started, her husband and Trinamool Congress (TMC) director Raj Chakraborty said.
“They are inside a hotel and they are safe. We are deeply concerned even though it is known that civilians are safe in Dubai. Let us see when flight operations resume,” Chakraborty said.
Ananya Datta, a resident of Kuwait, told HT that she and her husband saw a drone hitting the local airport during the airstrike.
Saibal Basu, an electrical engineer who has worked in a company in Doha since 2004, said that he and his colleagues witnessed the interception of Iranian missiles flying towards the American air base located 30 kilometers from the Qatari capital. “There is a curtain of black smoke around the Doha skyline,” Basu said.
Businessman Partha Sarathi Deb from Bahrain said that the authorities asked the terrified residents to move to safe shelters. “I witnessed the interception of about 14 missiles and nine drones from Iran,” Deeb said. “We live in fear.”
Kolkata Mayor and Minister Firhad Hakim’s wife and two daughters were on a Hajj trip in Saudi Arabia.
Hakeem’s eldest daughter, Priyadarshini, shared her experience on social media. “We are safe, but the army here is ready to fight. We saw a missile flying above us,” she said.
India’s aviation regulator on Saturday asked all Indian airlines to avoid flying across large areas of West Asian airspace, warning of a “significant escalation in security risks” following joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran and retaliatory missile attacks by Tehran across the Gulf.
