Three Saudi nationals killed in attacks on Riyadh airport, aviation authority says
Saudi Arabia’s aviation authority said two attacks on Riyadh’s main airport killed three Saudi nationals and injured several people, with air traffic now back to normal.
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Three Saudi nationals were killed and several people injured in two attacks on King Khalid International Airport on Thursday, Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority said on Friday.
Airport operations resume
In a statement on X, the General Authority of Civil Aviation said the first attack targeted airport facilities, while the second struck an aircraft belonging to Saudi state carrier Saudia.
The authority said injuries ranged from minor to severe and the attacks caused material damage. Airport operations have resumed and air traffic has returned to normal.
Houthis claim missile attacks
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Thursday that they had attacked the Riyadh airport with two cruise missiles.
The group also said it had targeted an airport in the southwestern Saudi city of Najran, a claim Saudi authorities have not confirmed, and an airbase in Khamis Mushait with ballistic missiles.
The Houthis say they are targeting Saudi Arabia over its support for government forces in Yemen’s reignited civil war. Saudi Arabia says it is backing an offensive by Yemen’s UN-recognised government to reclaim territory from the Houthis.
Earlier strikes and wider conflict
The latest confirmed casualties follow an announcement by Saudi authorities on Wednesday that three people had been killed in earlier strikes that week on Riyadh airport and Abha airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia.
The conflict, now a spillover of the US-Iran war, has fuelled further upheaval in a region already destabilised by the wider war and threatens to draw other states into mountain fighting.
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