A Sri Lankan national has died in the restaurant blasts that took place in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday.
Samith Rangana from Matara who worked at the KFC restaurant had died according to Dubai Media reports.
Three people were killed and several others were injured on Monday in two separate suspected Gas explosions in the UAE’s capital Abu Dhabi and its tourism hub Dubai, the police and local media said.
The blast hit KFC and Hardees restaurants on the city’s Rashid bin Saeed Street and other retail outlets were also damaged.
Another person was killed in a similar blast caused by a gas cylinder at a restaurant in Dubai which caused a blaze that damaged the ground floor of the building, according to a Dubai Civil Defence spokesperson quoted by the National. (NewsWire)
