Saleh Ahmed, 55, from Bangladesh, was delivering drinking water in the emirate of Ajman when he was struck by debris after an Iranian missile attack.
Speaking from Bangladesh, his son Abdul Haque told Sky News that Saleh was a hard-working man and the family's sole breadwinner, who would have not risked his life had he known the US-Israeli war with Iran had started.
"My father went to deliver water," Abdul said in tears. "That's when an Iranian missile landed on him and his car."
Ten minutes later, Saleh died at the scene, his son said.
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Saleh lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children.
His family says the attack took them all by surprise.
"No way, he wouldn't have known," Abdul said, when asked if his father was aware of the war.
"If he knew he wouldn't go out like that. We are hungry people, we have nothing and our family is very big. For sure my father didn't know about the war, or else he wouldn't have gone outside.
"If I had known, God willing, I would not have let him go outside."
'You don't get friends like my dad'
Five years ago, Abdul joined his father in Ajman to work alongside him at the water company.
"As a child, I'd only spend a month or two here and there with him. But for the last five-and-a-half years we were more like friends. Eating together and everything, we did it all together like friends," he said.
"You don't get friends like my dad anywhere in the world."
Saleh's life mirrors that of millions of South Asian migrant workers who live and work in the Middle East. Many have roles in construction, hospitality, transport and as domestic help.
With roots in the 1960s oil boom, today the migrant workforce is made up of workers from countries like India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and constitutes a large percentage of the overall population. Their remittances support generations of family back home.
"At the beginning my father really struggled and did a lot of different work. He worked at hotels, he washed cars, cut grass, he did everything," Abdul said.
"And for the last seven or eight years he had a good position at the water company. He did a good job, it was in the service of people, delivering drinking water to people.
"We never imagined this would suddenly happen."
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Body cannot be flown home for burial
Saleh's family live in a remote village in Sylhet, in northeastern Bangladesh. With the money he sent to them, they had begun building a house. The site remains incomplete, with a concrete foundation lying bare.
Abdul explains how his father did everything he could for the family to have their own home, right up until he died.
Saleh was not only supporting his family, but Abdul explains his father would gift meat parcels at Eid to friends and neighbours, give money to charity, and donate funds to the local mosques. He last visited his family four months ago.
Airspace closures over the UAE mean Saleh's body cannot be flown home for burial until commercial flights resume. Abdul says the delay in being next to his father and laying him to rest only prolongs the family's sadness.
Bangladesh's foreign ministry confirmed Saleh's death on Monday. It said ensuring the safety and security of more than six million Bangladeshis living in the Middle East remains the government's top priority.
Meanwhile, there are no plans to evacuate Bangladeshi migrant workers. The government has urged its citizens in the Middle East to "remain vigilant and strictly follow guidance issued by respective host governments".
"I pray for everyone to come quickly to a resolution," Abdul said, speaking about the US, Israel and Iran.
"I'm seeing videos of many people dying, and I don't want someone else to die like my father died. I don't want any other people to lose their parents like we lost our dad."
In a speech at the Conservative spring conference in Harrogate today, the Tory leader will accuse the prime minister of "sitting on the fence" while the rest of the world rearms.
"I never thought I would see the day when Britain's allies felt that they could not rely on us," she will say. "This week, they have described us as weak. They've accused us of deserting them, of going missing in action.
"They have watched Britain refusing to send reinforcements to defend our military bases in the Mediterranean. The US, Greece and France have all sent ships. Ours is stuck in Portsmouth Harbour, apparently because of a union dispute."
In her most scathing attack on the PM yet on Iran, she will continue: "Everyone remembers the mistakes of the Iraq war. Nobody is suggesting we should drop bombs without a second thought.
"But Keir Starmer spent days consulting lawyers and plucking up the courage to say whose side he was on, even though our allies had the moral clarity to do so immediately and unequivocally.
"Even now, he is sitting on the fence, still deciding what our role is going to be in this war. We are in this war whether Keir Starmer likes it or not. It's time to act.
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"He is a political hostage. Held at the behest of a load of half-rate left-wing MPs, none of whom grasp the seriousness of the world that Britain is now in.
"While the rest of the world rearms, they are playing student politics.
"Today's Labour Party is nothing like the patriotic Labour Party of yesteryear.
"In the 1950s, Nye Bevan warned about Britain not having a nuclear deterrent, he described it as the UK being sent naked into the conference chamber. Well today, it's happening again."
Labour's armed forces minister Al Carns has hit back angrily, declaring: "Trying to score cheap political points off the back of a serious security situation is deeply irresponsible.
"This situation is above politics and requires calm collective decision making - not hyperbole and soundbites. British troops are doing an amazing job and no one should be questioning their commitment or competency.
"Serious times require serious politics, not political point scoring on the back of our Armed Forces, civil service or MoD personnel who are doing an amazing job."
The trial showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil.
Asif Merchant, 47, was accused of trying to recruit people in the US in a plan targeting Mr Trump and others after Washington's killing of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020, during his first term.
Then president Joe Biden and Nikki Haley, who ran against Mr Trump that year for the Republican presidential nomination, were also targeted in the 2024 plot.
Merchant was convicted of "murder for hire and attempting to commit an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries" at the behest of Iranian authorities, the Department of Justice said in a statement.
Tehran has denied accusations that it sought to kill Mr Trump or other US officials.
The trial in Brooklyn began last week, days before the president ordered an attack on Iran, carried out with Israel, which has broadened into the region's biggest conflict in years.
Merchant admitted to joining the plot with Iran's elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, but testified he did so to protect his family in Tehran.
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Merchant said he was never ordered to kill a specific person, but that his handler named three people during conversations in the Iranian capital.
Police thwarted the plot before any attack took place.
A person Merchant contacted in April 2024 to assist with the plot reported his activities and became a confidential informant.
Merchant was arrested and pleaded not guilty that year.
The Revolutionary Guards have a central role in Iran, with a combination of military and economic power and an intelligence network.
US and Israeli attacks over the last week have killed at least 1,332 Iranian civilians and wounded thousands, according to Iran's UN ambassador.
Several top Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have been killed.
The US military has said six of its service members were killed in a drone strike on a facility in Kuwait.
NHS chiefs have admitted that some patients had to be clinically investigated following the incident at Glasgow's £1bn Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
However, officials are refusing to say how many patients were involved, what prompted the checks, or whether anyone became ill.
The hospital is already at the centre of long-running scandal over contaminated water and ventilation system issues, possibly being linked to a number of patient deaths in the past decade.
Earlier this week, Sky News revealed that mould and water ingress had been discovered inside ward 4B, the adult bone marrow transplant unit, with several rooms closed.
Bone marrow transplant patients are among the most vulnerable in the NHS.
Their immune systems are heavily suppressed, meaning even common airborne mould can cause life-threatening infections.
The incident, at one of Europe's largest healthcare facilities, triggered a red alert from the Healthcare Infection Incident Assessment Team (HIIAT), which is the most serious infection control warning used in Scotland's health service.
Sky News understands air scrubbers have been deployed in corridors and regular air sampling is now taking place in the ward - measures normally used during infection risk incidents.
NHS chiefs take days to respond to questions
We contacted NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde for clarity on the crisis on Monday evening and the board responded on Friday evening.
It said it had carried out "clinical investigations into a small number of patients" linked to the situation.
A spokeswoman said: "We have undertaken clinical investigations into a small number of patients all of whom are now discharged and causing no concern."
But the health board refused to say how many patients were investigated or whether any infections were suspected.
Ten detailed questions were put to the board by Sky News nearly a week ago, including whether patients had been exposed to mould or contaminated water. Almost all of them remain unanswered.
The Scottish government separately confirmed to Sky News that patients had been "identified in relation to this incident" and are now discharged.
'It could kill them'
Leading bacteriologist Hugh Pennington previously told us the findings were deeply concerning.
He said: "It is shocking in the sense that water ingress, there shouldn't be any.
"Mould could potentially infect any of the patients who are in there who are very defective or have zero immune systems, and it could kill them."
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Mr Pennington said on Monday: "That part of the hospital is not safe."
The Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, which opened in 2015, is already the subject of a corporate homicide investigation into deaths potentially linked to its environment.
Scotland's First Minister John Swinney insists the hospital remains safe, despite ongoing concerns exposed by Sky News.
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The scene looks like a funeral. That is the intention - but it is something else entirely.
Inside the coffin is a large sculpture: a bloodied knife carved with the skyline of London. The imagery is stark.
A group gathers around the coffin to take it in. Some of them are in tears.
It forms part of a new anti-knife crime project titled Re-claim, created by multimedia artist Eugene Ankomah and designed to shine a light on teenagers "lost to the streets".
Mr Ankomah says the reaction from some visitors has been emotional.
"I have had young people who have carried knives in the past come into this venue, and some of them have broken down crying," he said.
"That's what I want. I want them to have a change of heart, a change of mind."
The installation, based at the Salmon Youth Centre in Bermondsey, takes visitors along what Mr Ankomah describes as an "incident trail", guiding them through a simulated crime scene.
One young person, dressed in a forensic suit, explains: "The idea is for visitors to experience what a crime scene feels like."
Mr Ankomah recognises parts of the project may be difficult for some people, but says "this installation is consciously confrontational".
"This is a fight, and we have to keep fighting in every possible way," he said.
"The more innovative it is, I think the better."
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Inside the main installation room we meet Michael Jibowu, who once carried a knife himself.
In 2022, he was jailed for stabbing a teenager three times in the neck. His victim survived.
Four years on, Mr Jibowu now campaigns to raise awareness about knife crime.
The 24-year-old said he has a direct message for those who carry knives.
"Every single person I know that's carried a knife, they've either ended up dead or in a prison cell. Take it from me, I've gone to prison for stabbing someone.
"You don't have to listen to me, but the choice is yours. If you want to carry a knife, be ready for the consequences. I'm not saying it to scare you, I'm saying [the] reality."
The latest figures show knife crime has fallen over the past year, dropping below pre-pandemic levels, but offences are still more than 50% higher than a decade ago.
The government has committed to halving knife crime within a decade as part of its Plan for Change strategy.
But Mr Jibowu believes statistics alone cannot explain the issue.
"Data helps," he said. "But we need to understand the individual, why they are carrying knives. The key question we have to ask ourselves is why?"
Helping heal knife victim's mother
It is a question Sylvia Kane has been asking for two decades.
Her son, Eugene, was 16 when he was stabbed to death in Mitcham, south London, in 2006.
Kane says engaging with projects like this is painful, but also part of her healing.
"I think artwork like what Eugene Ankomah has done can stop knife crime because it is so powerful," she said.
"It is so visual. It touches your emotions in a way that other campaigns may not be able to."
Whether initiatives like this can influence behaviour is difficult to measure.
What they do offer, however, is space for reflection, community and dialogue - and perhaps, for some, a chance to choose a different path.