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<\/p>\n\n A limited number of flights from Dubai International Airport are to resume after a fuel tank fire, sparked during a drone incursion, suspended operations early on Monday.\n <\/p>\n
\n Large flames could be seen leaping into the air near the airport, before the fire was eventually brought under control.\n <\/p>\n
\n A number of flights were canceled, while others were delayed and diverted, when the country\u2019s aviation authority closed the airport.\n <\/p>\n
\n Flights from the UK, Ireland, India, and Pakistan were turned back to their points of origin, Flightradar24 maps showed earlier.\n <\/p>\n
\n Some flights were expected to resume from 10 a.m. local time (2 a.m. ET), said Emirates, which has its global headquarters in Dubai.\n <\/p>\n
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Dubai airport suspends flights after drone attack\n <\/p>\n
Flights were temporarily suspended at Dubai International Airport after a fuel tank nearby caught fire during a \u201cdrone-related incident,” according to Dubai\u2019s Civil Aviation Authority. The airport has now resumed some flights.<\/p>\n
Dubai airport suspends flights after drone attack<\/p>\n
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\n Raj Dholakia told CNN he was at Dubai airport waiting to board a flight home to Toronto, via New York, when authorities evacuated the entire floor covering three gates.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThere were hundreds of people \u2013 resting, sleeping or walking \u2013 everyone was told to go to the nearest staircase and go down,\u201d Dholakia said.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cThe escalator was full and even lifts were being used,\u201d he added, speaking from the assembly point, where he estimated up to 1,000 passengers had gathered.\n <\/p>\n
\n With seating scarce, some people sat on the floor, Dholakia said. He added that many passengers may have been waiting in planes on the runway, as departure boards still listed a dozen flights as \u201cgate closed,\u201d \u201cfinal call,\u201d or \u201cboarding.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Travelers were advised to contact their airlines for the latest updates regarding their flight.\n <\/p>\n
\n The fuel tank fire was \u201csuccessfully contained\u201d and no injuries were reported from the drone \u201cimpact,\u201d the Dubai Media Office said earlier.\n <\/p>\n
\n Some flights are now being diverted to the city\u2019s other main airport, Al Maktoum International Airport, which is about 65 kilometers away.\n <\/p>\n
\n CNN has reached out to airport operator Dubai Airports.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A limited number of flights from Dubai International Airport are to resume after a fuel tank fire, sparked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-526616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}