A Qatar Airways flight from Auckland to Doha has been diverted to Oman after Qatar was hit by missiles.<\/p>\n
Aviation tracking site Flightradar24 said QR921 was due to land in Doha at 9.35pm on Monday (local time) but instead diverted to Muscat, in Oman.<\/p>\n
Overnight, Iran said it\u00a0attacked the US Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar,<\/a>\u00a0as well as targets in Iraq. It follows the\u00a0US bombing of three nuclear sites in Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n Qatar temporarily closed its airspace and then condemned the attack on Al Udeid Air Base.<\/p>\n It said it had successfully intercepted the missiles and no casualties were reported.<\/p>\n Stuff Nz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Qatar Airways flight from Auckland to Doha has been diverted to Oman after Qatar was hit by missiles. Aviation tracking site Flightradar24 said QR921 was due to land in Doha at 9.35pm on Monday (local time) but instead diverted to Muscat, in Oman. Overnight, Iran said it\u00a0attacked the US Al Udeid Air Base in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14040,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14038\/revisions\/14040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}