One killed, 11 injured in second Houthi strike on Riyadh airport in two days

The Saudi capital has been hit by multiple attacks from the Iran-backed Yemeni group over the weekend. One person has been killed and 11 injured in a second strike on the international airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, officials have said. A Saudi military spokesman said a projectile had hit King Khalid International Airport on Sunday, causing a fire in one of its passenger halls. Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said in a statement on X that one person, a Pakistani resident, had been killed in the attack. It comes a day after a strike on the same airport killed 13 people and injured 308 others, following similar strikes earlier this week.

The Houthis in Yemen said they were behind the attacks and warned airlines and passengers against using Saudi Arabian airports and airspace. The group said they had targeted the airport with a mix of ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as drones in the past 24 hours. They also attacked oil facilities and Dammam airport in eastern Saudi Arabia, their military spokesman Brig Gen Yahya Saree said. He vowed to continue the "escalating operations deep inside Saudi Arabia", warning that all Saudi airports were potential targets apart from those in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The Houthis have said they are targeting Saudi Arabia over its