Friends left 'shaken up' as Iran hits Dubai
Mickey DrewA woman who is among those stranded in Dubai has described "absolute chaos" as Iran strikes the region.
Mickey Drew, 31, from Angarrack, Cornwall, was travelling back from Australia with two friends when flights were suspended after the US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday.
They are now staying in a hotel in Dubai where they had to take shelter after a "huge explosion" went off outside. "We're all pretty shaken up to be honest," she said.
Another woman from Cornwall who is stranded in Doha, Qatar, said she had seen missile attacks being intercepted and "blown up in the air".
New Iranian strikes are being reported across the Middle East after the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was among those killed in the US-Israeli attack on Saturday.
Drew said she and her two friends had boarded their plane back to the UK from Dubai International Airport, but they had to get off and were moved to a hotel on a coach when flights were cancelled.
Drew said there was "absolute chaos" in the airport with "thousands and thousands" of people stranded.
"We're all pretty shaken up to be honest, we definitely weren't expecting this to happen to us when we were coming back from our holiday... it's pretty scary," she said.
"We were getting our flight back to the UK... and we thought we were just delayed in a normal way, and then all of a sudden they announced there was all this fighting and we had to disembark the aircraft, and now we're here.
"We got taken to a hotel on a coach, we weren't told where we were being taken, and it took until 5:30 in the morning to get us any kind of room, but during that time we heard a huge explosion outside the hotel, and all the phone alarms suddenly sounded and we were advised to hide in the middle of the hotel."
Mickey DrewDrew said she and her friends were "crying and really scared" when they heard the explosion.
"This morning we were literally just sat having some breakfast and we saw a missile get shot out of the sky just above us, so it's pretty crazy," she said.
Sue Martin, who is from Cornwall and stranded in Doha, said they were about nine miles (15km) from the US base there when they began seeing and hearing missiles.
"It was like at one stage through the night it was very bad, the house was shaking it was so loud... and mainly they were being intercepted and blown up in the air... it was quite frightening, and at one stage through the night it was very bad, the house was shaking it was so loud," she said.
The family were originally supposed to travel back to the UK on Sunday, but she said she was waiting to find out from the British Embassy when they might be able to return.
ReutersAn Iranian drone crashed into a British RAF base in Cyprus on Sunday.
The incident at RAF Akrotiri took place at about 00:00 local time (22:00 GMT).
Chris Stephenson, who is originally from Devon and now lives in Cyprus, said "life goes on".
"It is what it is," he told BBC Radio Devon.
"It's a worry in some sense, because Syria is only 60 miles away."
