Twelve Killed and 300 Injured in Riyadh Airport Attack
The airport suspended operations as hospitals treated 309 injured people, and Saudi officials said the strike killed 12 and damaged property.
- On Saturday, a Houthi attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed 12 people and wounded 309, according to Saudi authorities. This marked the third strike on the facility this week, temporarily suspending airport operations.
- The strike occurred as Iran-backed Houthi forces escalated their campaign following a Saudi-backed Yemeni government offensive that began Monday. The conflict has generated hundreds of strikes across Houthi-held areas in recent weeks.
- Without warning, the strike killed four Saudis, two Bangladeshis, and nationals from the United States, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Egypt. The kingdom's threat detection system failed to issue an alert.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned the raids as showing "a blatant disregard for innocent civilian life," while the Saudi-led coalition vowed to respond. President Donald Trump said his administration would decide quickly on joining strikes.
- Travel was disrupted shortly before Riyadh is scheduled to host major energy and investment conferences at an airport serving eight million people. Organizers stated prior to the attack that events would proceed as planned.
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Trump did not rule out the possibility of the US joining Saudi attacks on the Iran-backed Houthi rebels.
12 dead and over 300 wounded.
Twelve people have been killed in a rocket attack on the international airport of the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh. Several hundred people have been injured, some of whom have been severely injured. This further escalated the conflict with the pro-Iranian Houthi militia in Yemen.
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The Saudi authorities announced that 12 people were killed, including 4 Saudis and 1 American, and another 309 were injured, some of them serious, in this Saturday's missile attack on the facilities of the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, attributed to the Houthi Shia insurgents in Yemen.Keep reading....
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At least 12 people died and more than 300 were injured this Saturday in an attack on Riyadh International Airport, the deadliest in the kingdom in more than a decade. Among those killed in the third attack of the week against the airport were four Saudis, two Bangladeshis and one person from each of the following nationalities: the United States, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, as reported by the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority. Accord…
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