His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai’s Executive Council, mourned the late His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

His Highness said on his Twitter account: “To Allah, we all shall return. The late Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed’s heart was a homeland to us all. A man who truly spent his life serving his people and his country... A leader who followed in the footsteps of his father the late Sheikh Zayed. May the soul of our leader and our father Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan rest in peace.”