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Qatar’s authorities lipid elephantine QatarEnergy said on Wednesday (March 18, 2026) that “extensive damage” has been caused after the Ras Laffan Industrial City was subjected to rocket attacks, soon after the country’s Interior Ministry reported a occurrence resulting from an Iranian onslaught connected the area.
“Emergency response teams were deployed instantly to incorporate the resulting fires,” the world’s second-largest LNG exporter said successful a statement. No casualties were reported and each personnel were accounted for, it said.
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Qatar condemned successful a connection the onslaught saying that it represents a “direct threat” to its national security. Iran insists connected targeting Qatar and its neighbouring countries successful an “irresponsible approach,” the Qatari overseas ministry added.
Qatar’s Interior Ministry earlier said that civilian defence unit were dealing with a occurrence successful the Ras Laffan area aft an Iranian attack. The Ministry said that the occurrence successful Ras Laffan country was preliminarily brought nether control, with nary injuries reported.
Ras Laffan, located 80 km northbound of Doha, is an energy-industry hub and hosts respective planetary companies.
Iran earlier issued an evacuation warning for respective oil facilities crossed Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar, including the Ras Laffan Refinery, saying they would beryllium targeted by strikes “in the coming hours,” Iranian authorities media reported.
Qatar’s Ras Laffan LNG installations are being evacuated, a root with cognition of the substance told Reuters connected Wednesday, pursuing Iran’s menace to onslaught Gulf vigor facilities.
