One killed, eight injured in attack on Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd Airport
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An attack has been carried out on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, leaving one person dead and eight others injured, according to the country’s civil aviation authority.
In a statement on Wednesday, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said several of the injured were in critical condition. All the injured were taken to hospitals.
Earlier on Wednesday, Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Energy said the country’s air defence systems had intercepted a drone attempting to strike a facility belonging to Saudi Aramco at the Shaybah oil field. However, two people were killed in the incident.
This is the latest in a series of attacks on airports in Saudi Arabia. The attacks have taken place amid escalating hostilities between Houthi forces and Yemen’s internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.
Earlier, on October 11, a missile strike at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed one person and injured 11 others. The previous day, a separate attack at the same airport reportedly killed 12 people and injured more than 300, according to the country’s civil aviation authority.
Meanwhile, amid ongoing Houthi attacks, the US State Department on Wednesday ordered diplomats and their family members to leave US missions in Saudi Arabia.
US officials told Reuters that plans were also underway to evacuate family members of diplomats from US missions in several other Middle Eastern countries. On Wednesday, the US Embassy in Riyadh issued a security alert warning of the possibility of further Houthi attacks in Saudi Arabia.
(Source: Al Jazeera.)
