Dubai flooded

A powerful rain collapsed on the United Arab Emirates, as a result of which the largest city in the country of Dubai was paralyzed. There, the first floors of houses, shopping centers, roads and metro flooded there, and the local airport temporarily suspended the reception of flights.

About 120 millimeters of precipitation fell on Tuesday in Dubai. As Sky News notes , this is an annual norm for the region. Personnel are distributed in social networks, which show half -flooded cars trying to drive around the city. CNN notes that some drivers were forced to abandon their cars, as the roads turned into rivers.

Dubai Airport - one of the most loaded in the world - stopped taking aircraft for 25 minutes. Sky News calls his runway similar to the lake. The airport canceled several dozen flights flying and arriving, three aircraft were redirected to other cities. Despite the weather conditions, flying flights are still executed, the airport said. Aeroflot said about the transfer of several flights from Dubai.

Mash telegram channel published a video from the largest shopping center of the city of Dubai Mall. The frames show that the floor in the shopping center is covered with a layer of water. According to Khaleej Times, several hundred people were blocked there due to a non-working metro. Mash writes that the shopping center has formed a large queue of those who wanted to leave by taxi.

Mash also claims that the flood touched, including the Blockchain Life crypto conference, which was supposed to be the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov. The published video shows how people try to get rid of the water pouring space.

Several metro stations also flooded in Dubai: additional bus routes were launched for passengers. In addition to rain, a strong wind rages in the city. The National Meteorological Center of the UAE warns that its impulses reach 70 kilometers per hour. Associated Press notes that schools were closed throughout the country, and civil servants were transferred to a remote format of work. Kommersant writes that the country's authorities canceled all football matches that were supposed to take place on Tuesday.

Rains also took place in Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman. In the latter, at least 18 people were killed as a result of bad weather, including 10 children.

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