Sirens and missile alerts have been blaring out across Dubai as another drone attack rains down on the UAE city.
Tourists have been caught up in the chaos after the UAE confirmed it was struck with an Iranian ballistic missile and six drones following a barrage of 131 suicide drones in a furious ‘revenge’ attack.
Iran has now fired missiles at ten countries in the rapidly expanding war that has broken out in the Middle East following US-Israel strikes last Saturday that killed Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Influencers have been posting videos of alarms ringing out of the city from rooftop bars, inside bomb shelters and even from a bubbling jacuzzi amid the deadly strikes.
Three people were killed in the blitz on the city on Sunday, which saw the world-famous Jumeriah Hotel set ablaze and industrial zones smouldering. It has not yet been reported whether any have been killed in this latest round of strikes.
But tourists have been caught in a strange position on their luxurious holidays as their phones ring out to remind them that their glamorous jaunts are close to being made a warzone.
Russian-born fashion model Polina Mashkova, who now lives in Dubai after being brought up in Amsterdam, posted a video of the missile alert ringing from a bubbling hot tub at 8.09pm local time (6.09pm UK time).
She put the location as the Burj Khalifa – the tallest building in the world which narrowly missed being hit in a drone attack last Sunday. Dramatic footage appeared to show the drone was shot down just before it reached the massive building.
Russian-born model Polina Mashkova posted the missile alert going off while she was in a hot tub on the Burj Khalifa
The UAE confirmed it was hit by a ballistic missile and six drones following a barrage of 131 suicide drones in a furious ‘revenge’ attack. The Burj Khalifa was narrowly missed in a drone strike in the city last Sunday (pictured)
While Ms Mashkova was up on high, Italian national volleyball team player Daniele Mazzone was hunkered down in a bomb shelter stuffed with single beds with his teammate Tommaso Barotto and a number of other squad members.
They look decidedly glum in the busy shelter but more inconvenienced than scared for their lives.
Elsewhere, Russian hairstylist Maria posted a video of her riding in a car on a motorway when the missile alert blurted out of her companion’s phone.
She posted another video on her Instagram story about an hour later when they arrived at their destination and were greeted with another missile alert warning while sitting on a rooftop bar at a marina in Dubai surrounded by slick, lit-up high-rise buildings.
Missiles have been falling for nearly a week now after Iran was bombed by the US and Israel. Since then, Iran has unleashed ‘revenge’ strikes on Israel, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq and Cyprus – though the Cypriot attacks are thought to have come from Hezbollah in Lebanon who have joined Iran’s side.
Azerbaijan has also reported two drones struck and airport and a school but Iran has denied it fired the weapons.
Six US servicemen have been killed in Kuwait after it was hit by strikes on Sunday.
President Donald Trump has said there will be ‘likely more’ deaths and vowed to avenge those who have fallen in a fiery address to the nation earlier this week.
Italian volleyball player Daniele Mazzone had to hunker down in a bomb shelter with his teammates
Iranian strikes hit a key industrial zone in Dubai last Sunday. Satellites captured black smoke billowing from the bomb site
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the ‘harderst hits are yet to come from the US military’.
Sir Keir Starmer has revealed the UK will send four additional Typhoon jets to Qatar where residents living near the US embassy in Doha were evacuated as it intercepted multiple missile attacks.
Tensions between Sir Keir and Trump have risen as the president criticised him for not allowing to use UK military bases for the initial strikes on Iran, calling him ‘no Winston Churchill’.