After two months of calm, the explosions have started again for Bahrain citizens.
Locals reported hearing blasts about 4am local time, and then a second round at 6.30am.
It’s exactly what I was hoping wouldn’t happen: Iranian attacks starting again, with all the worry and uncertainty that go with them”, Hayat Ibrahim, 65, told AFP news agency.
Another resident, Mohammed Abdallah, a shopkeeper in the capital Manama, which is just north of the air base targeted said:
I was hoping this period was behind us and wouldn’t happen again.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry posted public warnings on X, telling “residents to remain calm, proceed to the nearest safe location, and follow news through official channels”.
Iran had last launched strikes in the first week of September, when the regime targeted US military assets in Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
View image in fullscreenSmoke seen in the sky in northern Bahrain following Iranian drone and missile attacks in early September. Photograph: UGC/AFP/Getty Images