Saudi and Yemeni Airports Hit in New Round of Strikes
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The airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was struck a day after suffering a devastating attack. The Houthis said Saudi aircraft hit the Yemeni capital’s airport.
Reporting from Beirut, Lebanon and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Maj. Gen. Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen, said on social media that an “unidentified projectile” had struck the airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital, Riyadh, causing a fire on Sunday. The Saudi civil aviation authority said in a statement that the latest strike at the airport, King Khalid International, which suspended operations on Saturday, had caused injuries and that damage assessments were underway.
In Yemen, Houthi-run media reported on Sunday that Saudi aircraft had struck the international airport in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. The Houthi-run health ministry said that a child had also been killed in a strike on a residential building in the capital. Saudi airstrikes have killed 91 people since Sept. 3, mostly women and children, according to Anees al-Asbahi, a spokesman for the ministry.
The Houthi attacks on the airport in Riyadh came amid a spate of increasingly brazen strikes by the militia on vital Saudi infrastructure in recent days, which have rattled the kingdom and frayed nerves in its capital.
King Fahd International in Dammam, a major airport in the kingdom’s east, was also attacked on Sunday, the Saudi civil aviation authority said, adding that a damage assessment was underway without further details.
The Houthi military spokesman, Yahya Saree, on Sunday said that an operation aimed at the airport in Dammam had hit the site and “disrupted air traffic.”
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