Riyadh airport hit again day after deadly Houthi strike

King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh has come under another deadly attack just one day after a Houthi strike killed 12 people and injured 309 at the facility. The latest attack on Sunday killed a Pakistani resident and injured 11 others, according to Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA).

An unidentified projectile struck Terminal 4 of the airport, sparking a fire, Major General Turki Al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition, told reporters on Sunday. 

“The Coalition also intercepted and destroyed a cruise missile in the vicinity of the airport,” he added.

GACA said the injured were immediately taken to hospital for treatment, while the extent of the damage to the airport was still being assessed. The latest casualties bring the combined toll from the two attacks to 13 dead and 320 injured.

The airport has remained closed since Saturday’s deadly attack, which killed four Saudi citizens and eight foreign nationals, including two Bangladeshis and one each from the US, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Sudan. Some of those injured were reported to be in critical condition.

Yemen’s Houthi movement, also known as Ansar Allah, claimed responsibility for Saturday’s attack on Riyadh airport, as well as strikes it said it had carried out on an airport in Dammam, in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, and two facilities belonging to Saudi oil giant Aramco.