First evacuation flight from the Middle East touches down in the UK: Relieved Brits hug loved ones after landing at Heathrow

The Etihad Airways plane landed at Heathrow Terminal 4 at 7:16pm, two days after the US and Israel struck Iran, killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and prompting a furious Iranian response.


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