Drone attack causes fire at Kuwait oil refinery

AFP | Washington

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Drone attacks hit Kuwait’s Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery yesterday, causing several fires but no casualties, state media said, citing the national oil company.

“The Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery... was subjected early today to several hostile drone attacks, causing fires in some of its units,” the official Kuwait News Agency said, adding that “several refinery units were shut down”.

The Kuwaiti army later said that the fire was brought under control without any casualties.

“Two drones targeted one of the units in a refinery of the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, resulting in a fire that was brought under control by the specialised teams, without any injuries,” it said on X.

Iran has stepped up attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure in recent days, hitting refineries and the world’s biggest gas hub in Qatar, as Tehran retaliated over Israeli strikes on its South Pars gas field.

In Kuwait, an army statement said air defenses were “responding to hostile missile and drone threats”, while the UAE state media reported “incoming missile and drone threats from Iran”.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by the Tasnim news agency that they had targeted US forces in the UAE’s Al-Dhafra air base as well as sites in Israel with missiles and drones.

Saudi Arabia’s defense ministry said that its forces had “intercepted and destroyed” more than a dozen drones in the country’s east and another in the north.