British family stranded in Middle East after Foreign Office errors

Nusaybah Sattar and five relatives were kept off evacuation flight despite holding tickets and UK passports Middle East crisis live: latest news updates A British family stranded in the Middle East after being wrongly refused entry to an evacuation flight from Oman say they have received an apology from the Foreign Office, but no actual help to get home. Nusaybah Sattar, 26, from London, was in Dubai with her family to celebrate her brother-in-law’s 40th birthday when the city was hit by Iranian drones and missiles last Saturday. Sattar said she heard bangs earlier in the day but thought it was construction work. “It just hit home – the reality that it could happen anywhere,” she said. When they realised what was happening, the family left the country, making an eight-hour drive to Oman. There, they registered their presence with the UK government and were informed of a charter flight to London being organised for British nationals by the Foreign Office. The family of six paid more than £1,700 for tickets, but when they tried to board the flight on Wednesday, Foreign Office ground workers said that most of them had not been approved to do so. They later found out that Sattar’s 19-m

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