Heavy rain on the Arabian Peninsula also affected oil giant Saudi Arabia, where one person was killed.
Some reports indicated that the area around Doha’s Hamad international airport received 88 millimetres of rain in a matter of hours, well above the national annual average of 74 millimetres.
Huge leaks were sprung in the airport building, schools and shopping malls were closed and the US embassy in the Qatari capital was forced to shut as a result of the deluge.
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