Drone hobbyists are on a government-mandated hiatus in the United Arab Emirates in the wake of last week's deadly attack on a key oil facility outside the nation's capital city of Abu Dhabi, the Associated Press reports .
On a statement warning Khaleej Times reports.
It marks the latest escalation in air restrictions since Monday's drone strikes claimed by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels. In one of the worst attacks to date on UAE soil, the strikes blew up several fuel trucks and sparked fires in the surrounding industrial area and nearby international airport, killing three people and wounding six others, Bloomberg reports .
The UAE ambassador to Washington, Yousef Al-Otaiba, said Wednesday that both missiles and drones were involved in the incidents.
"Several attacks — a combination of cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and drones — targeted civilian sites in the UAE," he said at a virtual conference organized by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.
"Several were intercepted, a few of them didn't and three innocent civilians, unfortunately, lost their lives," Al-Otaiba continued.
UAE regulations already restrict
On Tuesday, the agency notified current and former applicants that the certification process is on indefinite hold, the Khaleej Times reports , adding that now when users navigate to apply for any drone-related service on its website, an error message pops up that states, "Sorry, this service is temporarily suspended until further notice."
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