New Delhi, March 8 -- The island nation, home to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet, Bahrain, on Sunday became the first Arab country to accuse Iran of a drone attack that resulted in "material damage" to a desalination plant during the nine-day conflict in the Middle East.

"Iranian aggression indiscriminately attacked civilian targets and caused material damage to a water desalination plant following a drone attack," the Ministry of Interior said following Tehran's earlier allegation of the US targeting one of its own desalination plants from a base in Bahrain.

At least 3 people were injured, it said.

Hundreds of desalination plants line the coast of the Persian Gulf, with Arab countries in the region relying heavily on them for their drinking...