in the Strait of Hormuz, were "in response to attempted attacks by Iran across the Middle East", US Central Command (Centcom) said. Centcom said Iran had fired two missiles at Kuwait and three at Bahrain, all of which broke apart or were intercepted. Iran said it had attacked US bases and helicopters in a "regional country" using missiles and drones in retaliation. One person was killed in Kuwait and more than 60 injured when drones hit buildings including its international airport, officials said. Kuwait's defence ministry spokesman, Brig Gen Saud Abdulaziz Al-Otaibi, called the attack "criminal Iranian aggression", while the Kuwaiti foreign ministry later said infrastructure including diplomatic missions had been damaged. Centcom said the strike on Qeshm Island had targeted an Iranian military ground control station. It said the US also shot down three attack drones that had been launched by Iran toward "civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters". Centcom had earlier said it had struck and "disabled" an unladen oil tanker that was sailing towards Iran, as part of the US naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, which began on 13 April. A US aircraft fired a Hellfire missile into the engine room of the Botswana-flagged M/T vessel, after its crew "ignored repeated warnings", it said. (BBC)