Video shows fire engulfing residential high-rise in Bahrain

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Max Saltman and Thomas Bordeaux
Smoke rises from a burning building hit by an Iranian drone strike in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday, after Israel and the US launched strikes on Iran.
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Videos geolocated and verified by CNN show a large fire at a residential high-rise building in Manama, Bahrain, on Saturday.
It’s unclear what caused the fire at the Breaker apartment tower, but videos show a blaze engulfing exterior cladding across nearly all of the 30-story building.
Earlier in Manama, footage verified by CNN showed an Iranian Shahed drone striking the upper floors of another building, the Era View residential tower. Nearby, another drone strike destroyed a radar dome at a US naval base.
Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said Saturday night that a residential building in Manama was “targeted” and that authorities are investigating. Earlier, the ministry announced that three buildings in Manama and Muharraq sustained damage “as a result of drone attacks and falling debris from an intercepted missile.”
“The first building has been evacuated, and the fire has been brought under control, with one minor case of smoke inhalation treated on site,” the ministry said in a post on X, without specifying which buildings or where.
“Firefighting and security operations are underway at the second site, while an assessment of the material damage to the third building caused by falling debris from an intercepted missile is underway,” it said.
CNN has reached out to the ministry to confirm whether the Breaker is among the buildings noted in its post.