A passenger terminal at Riyadh International Airport in Saudi Arabia was attacked again on Sunday, a day after fatal blow The attack at Riyadh airport killed at least 12 people, including a U.S. citizen, and injured hundreds.
The second attack came as Yemen’s Houthis said they had carried out at least four operations targeting Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport since Saturday.
Saudi authorities said people were injured in recent attacks at King Khalid International Airport’s Terminals 3 and 4, which serve domestic flights. The airport has been hit four times in the past five days and has been closed since Saturday’s missile attack, the deadliest in the Gulf Arab state since the war with Iran began. More than 300 people were injured, some seriously.
Houthi armed forces spokesman Brig.-Gen. General Yahya Sarri said on Telegram that the attacks were in response to “Saudi Arabia’s brutal aggression against our country and our people,” according to CBS News partner BBC News. He claimed that Saudi Arabia had launched more than 120 air strikes in areas controlled by the Houthi armed forces in Yemen in the past 24 hours.
The Houthis said their other targets included the Shugadam gas facility owned by Saudi Arabian oil and gas company Aramco, the Tanaguib refinery and Dammam’s King Fahd International Airport, the BBC reported.
Saudi Arabia’s Civil Aviation Authority confirmed the attack on King Fahd Airport.
Saturday’s attack on the airport was the most serious in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade, marking a major escalation in the war between Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi Arabia and further complicating efforts to stem the tide in Yemen. The US-Iraq war.
Saudi Arabia has moved schools in Riyadh online amid the latest threat from the Houthis. Flightradar24 tracker said the flight was diverted elsewhere. Countries including the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia and Canada have warned people to avoid going to airports.
Earlier on Saturday, the Houthis threatened new attacks on Saudi Arabian airports outside the holy sites of Mecca and Medina and warned passengers not to travel.
“Airports and airspace are easy targets and constitute the operational area of our forces,” Sarrey wrote on X.
He urged “everyone to take our warnings seriously”.
On Sunday, the Houthis said the airport in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, which they control, had been attacked again. They blamed Saudi Arabia but gave no details.
Saturday’s attack on Riyadh airport drew condemnation from the United Nations and world leaders, including President Trump, who said he was considering joining Saudi Arabia in its fight against the Houthis.
“The United States strongly condemns recent Houthi attacks on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, including today’s attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, which killed countless innocent people, including an American citizen,” U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a social media post.
A State Department spokesperson told CBS News that the Trump administration is in close contact with its “Saudi partners.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said attacks by Iranian proxies “are pushing the region into a spiral of violence”.
“They are destabilizing important global transportation and energy nodes,” she wrote on X.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday condemned the attack at King Khalid Airport “in the strongest possible terms” and expressed his condolences.
He said in a statement shared on
A Saudi statement on Saturday’s attack said the dead included four Saudi citizens, two Bangladeshi citizens, a Palestinian, a U.S. citizen, an Egyptian, a Jordanian, a Syrian and a Sudanese. It is said that multiple hospitals are treating 309 injured people, some of whom are seriously injured.
According to Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News TV station, the Egyptian woman was a flight attendant named Azza Ramzy, 28, who worked for Saudi Arabian Airlines Flynas.
An Indian citizen has died after being injured in an attack at Riyadh airport a day earlier, the Indian embassy in Saudi Arabia said on Sunday.
“It is reported that an Indian citizen who was injured in the Riyadh attack unfortunately lost his life today. We express our sincere condolences to the family of the deceased,” the embassy read in a statement posted on X.
The Houthis claimed an attack on King Khalid International Airport earlier this week that killed three Saudis, including a pilot. There are no military facilities at the airport.
There has been a surge in attacks this week since the Saudi-led coalition launched a major military offensive against the Houthis, including attacks on other Saudi airports, military installations and oil infrastructure.