Jaw-dropping video shows the moment a massive explosion ripped through Kuwait’s international airport Wednesday, killing one person and injuring dozens more in an act the country’s defense ministry called “criminal Iranian aggression.”
Surveillance footage released by Kuwait’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation shows a triangular-shaped drone aircraft dive-bombing the roof of Kuwait International Airport’s Terminal 1 just after 7 a.m. local time Wednesday, sending up a huge plume of fire and smoke.
The video is shown from several different angles, including from a parking area right next to where the drone made impact, where a silver car immediately pumped the gas to get out of harm’s way.
Footage taken inside the terminal shows a handful of people going about their day when suddenly their peace was shattered by the explosion, instantly filling the building with smoke and sending broken glass raining down on everyone inside from all angles.
Among the 63 injured were passengers and airport staff.
The airport had just reopened after closing in February due to previous Iran strikes, Kuwait Defense Ministry spokesperson Brig. Gen. Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi said.
Kuwait’s Foreign Ministry said it would “neither accept nor tolerate” the attacks — and warned that it reserves the right to respond against Iran’s offensive.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) denied involvement in the attack, and attempted to pin it on a mistake by a US missile interceptor.
US Central Command (CENTCOM) quickly refuted IRGC’s claim, firing back that the rogue Islamic state had fired upon the airport in a “deliberate, calculated and unjustified attack.”
The explosion comes amid weeks of slow-going peace talks to end the war, and as Iranian news outlets reported the country has stopped communicating with mediators about extending a ceasefire in the war with the US and Israel.
However President Trump disputed that claim and insisted the talks, complicated by Israel’s expanding war in Lebanon with Iran-backed Hezbollah, were progressing.
With Post wires.
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