Deaths from heavy rains earlier this week in the United Arab Emirates rose to four, authorities said on Friday, as well as flooding roads and jamming Dubai's international airport.

[The airport] was limiting arrivals for two days until Sunday.

As of Friday morning, 1,478 flights to and from Dubai had been canceled since Tuesday, approximately 30% of all flights, according to aircraft flight tracking website FlightRadar24.

The storm first hit Oman at the weekend, killing at least 20 people, before pounding the UAE on Tuesday with its heaviest rains in 75 years of records.

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