A Kiwi pair took a seven-hour car trip through the desert to catch an alternative connecting flight to Europe – after their initial travel plans were disrupted by the conflict in the Middle East.
Lyndon Urqhart and his wife Gabrielle were on their way to a business conference in Germany with a three-day stopover in Doha, Qatar when missiles began being intercepted in the skies.
“That’s when it really kicked in… There was some quite loud booms,” he said.
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