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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

I was stranded in the UAE – the rescue mission is a shambles

Welcome home: Hannah Connell and her family at London Heathrow - (Hannah Connell)

A British mother has described her horror at being trapped with her young children in the UAE by the Iran-US conflict on their way back from a trip to India.

Hannah Connell returned to the UK from Abu Dhabi on Tuesday morning, along with her children and her husband. They were aboard a plane with dozens of empty seats, she says, that could have gone to other people desperate to leave the UAE.

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