By Graeme Murray & John Gambrell
Police in Dubai rescued a cat from severe floods after unprecedented torrential rain.
The crying black and white moggy was discovered by rescue crews clinging to the door of a car after floods took over the normally blistering hot city.
The city struggled to cope with the record-breaking floods, and the poor animal was one of many victims trying to escape the water. Heartwarming footage showed a police rescuer come to the cat's aid and lifted it into his boat before taking it to dry land.
Chaos has continued to unfold at Dubai airport after the extreme flooding. Among those trying to fly back is 36-year-old Pallavi and her family-of-three. The 36-year-old mum claims the situation at the airport is untenable with people “sleeping on the floor” and shops “running out of food”.
The family said they are receiving “zero communication”. Photos taken at the scene show people tightly queuing together, sitting on the floor, and standing around due to the lack of seating space. The marketing professional said: “People here are sleeping on the floor and the airport is running out of food options. All we are getting is coffee, as everything’s out of supply.
“My family and I, as well as others, have been waiting at the boarding gates with zero communication and zero concern. When we arrived at the airport, it was flooded with people and no one from the management team knew what was going on.”
Pallavi and her family were expected to fly from Mumbai to New York, via Dubai, on Tuesday, which was booked in November last year costing £860 each. But flights were hit and according to reports, around six inches of rain fell in the city, which is more than what Dubai gets across the year.
The state-run WAM news agency called the rain Tuesday “a historic weather event” that surpassed “anything documented since the start of data collection in 1949”.
