Qatar says citizen killed from shrapnel due to 'military operations'


CAIRO, June ⁠28 (Reuters) - Qatar's interior ministry ⁠said on Sunday a ‌Qatari national was killed after sustaining injuries from shrapnel due to "military ​operations in the ⁠area" after ⁠a vessel carrying him and another ⁠person ‌went missing.

The ministry said the ⁠second individual was injured, adding that ​it ‌located the missing vessel ⁠in ​the early hours of Sunday after search operations that ⁠started a day ​earlier.

It did not give the location of the incident and ⁠did not say whether the shrapnel was linked to Iranian drones launched against ​U.S. military ⁠sites in Kuwait and Bahrain ​on Sunday.

(Reporting ‌by Menna Alaa El-Din ​and Ahmed Tolba; Editing by Ros Russell)

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