British couple sheltered in car park under hotel before catching flight home

Evening Standard

A couple who arrived back in the UK on the first chartered flight from the Middle East said they sheltered in a car park beneath their hotel in Dubai.Thousands of British nationals are stranded in the Middle East after US-Israeli strikes on Iran prompted retaliatory strikes across the region.The first Government chartered flight took off from Muscat, the capital of Oman, at 1.36pm GMT on Thursday, having initially been scheduled for 7pm on Wednesday.Amelia Reid and Samuel Sharp travelled to Dubai for a long weekend, arriving last Friday, and by Saturday evening they were sheltering under their hotel.

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00:20I think now I've recommended that you don't expect to go on for a day and then have like a

00:24missile so I have ahead

00:25and we stayed in a hotel that took two doors down from Fairmont, they got hit by one of the

00:31intercepted drones

00:32so luckily we wasn't in the hotel when it was going to happen

00:35it was apparently the hotel that I shook and it freaked out

00:47We actually tried four different flights to get home

00:50We went out and there was VA in the main council and that

00:53We tried an Emirates flight at that main council

00:56We tried a flight-by-flight

00:57and then that council actually decided to go over the border and get the boat from Iran

01:02to Muscat Airport as well

01:04and back and forth now

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