West Asia conflict: Malayalis send families back

AN air strike siren going off, people rushing to their balconies with mobile phones, and exploding missiles lighting up the night sky.

- ANU KURUVILLA @ Kochi

That, according to Jayasankar Mundancherry, has become the routine for the residents of Bahrain, weathering successive retaliatory air strikes from Iran ever since the US and Israel launched bombing on February 28.“Though the situation on the ground is tense, and uncertainty looms large over how long the war will go on, life in Bahrain has not been affected much when it comes to the availability of essential items and other facilities,” Jayasankar, who caught a flight back home from Riyadh along with his daughter, told this newspaper.