Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim responsibility for deadly drone attack in Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates — A drone attack claimed by Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeting a key oil facility in Abu Dhabi killed three people on Monday and sparked a fire at Abu Dhabi’s international airport. Emirati police identified the dead as two Indian nationals and one Pakistani. Six people were also wounded at an industrial area where Abu Dhabi’s state-owned energy company runs a pipeline network and an oil tanker storage facility. Senior Emirati diplomat Anwar Gargash blamed the Houthis for the attack the government forces took back the province of Shabwa earlier this month in a blow to Houthi efforts to complete their control of the entire northern half of Yemen. Condemnations of the attack on the UAE poured in from across the world. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the United States would work with the UAE and international partners to hold the Houthis accountable Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim responsibility for deadly drone attack in Abu Dhabi DUBAI U.N. experts and others have accused Iran of supplying arms to the Houthis. The UAE was a key member of the Saudi-led coalition that has waged war against the Houthis since 2015 without offering further details. Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claimed they were behind an attack targeting a military installation that hosts U.S. and French forces. U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Andrew Clark and that airport operations have returned to normal. Abu Dhabi Airports did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The other blast struck three petroleum transport tankers near a complex for the Abu Dhabi National Oil Co. in the Musaffah industrial area. The company describes it as a pipeline and terminal facility located some 22 kilometers from the center of the city of Abu Dhabi said spokesman Stephane Dujarric. The U.N. special envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg was headed to Riyadh for meetings with Saudi and Yemeni officials on a glitzy city of skyscrapers and five-star hotels. The airport fire in Abu Dhabi was described by police as said in a statement to The Associated Press that U.S. forces are ready and available to assist and support their Emirati partners if requested as well as an oil refinery and other sites in the UAE with ballistic missiles and explosive-laden drones. Although the UAE has largely withdrawn its own forces from Yemen