Falling shrapnel damages homes and cars in East Hidd

TDT | Manama

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Damage to homes in East Hidd City was caused by falling shrapnel after an object was intercepted in the air during Iranian attacks on Bahrain, a Muharraq Municipal Council member said.

He added that no one was injured and that the losses were limited to property.

Mohammed Al Moqahwi, who represents the Eighth Constituency, said that the two neighbouring houses took the brunt.

In one building, the outer brickwork of a flat came away in full and dropped onto cars parked beneath, smashing windscreens and damaging several vehicles.

He said homes nearby also reported broken windows, which he linked to blast pressure and fragments carried across the area.

The damage appeared, on the information available so far, to have come from pieces of an object struck in the sky rather than a direct drone hit on the buildings, Al Moqahwi said.

A direct strike, he added, would likely have caused far heavier destruction and could have brought down a building or sparked a full fire.

He said the incident happened after the Isha prayer and that the site, close to the naval base, was among the areas affected, allowing fragments to reach neighbouring residential streets.