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Dubai is billed as a safe haven, a playground for the rich.
It has no bomb shelters or bunkers.
But on Saturday, people's phones here beeped with the sound of national emergency alerts telling them to seek shelter in, quote, secure buildings due to missile threats.
In a first for this emirate, fighter jets flew overhead.
An interceptor shot down Iranian missiles targeting Dubai throughout the day and past midnight.
Debris fell near the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest tower.
The Fairmont Hotel on Dubai's iconic Palm Island was also hit, possibly by a drone or debris, catching fire and wounding people.
Nearby Abu Dhabi says a person there was killed by fallen debris as upscale parts of that emirate also saw fiery debris falling.
Meanwhile, Kuwait's airport was hit and a residential tower in Bahrain was struck by an exploding Iranian drone.
Iran's state news agency IRNA says 170 students were present in the school when it was hit by what the governor says was, quote, the American Zionist aggression.
The state news agency posted this brief clip from the scene, showing a damaged low-rise building with smoke rising and people standing around as a woman wails.
The primary school is located in Minab, a city in southern Iran that's close to the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway through which a fifth of the world's oil passes.
positions in Gulf Arab states that Iranian missiles have targeted today.
The attacks began this morning with Israel striking Iran first and the U.S.
Iran, a nation of 90 million, has closed schools and universities until further notice.