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DEVELOPING · 7 OCT → 20 OCT 2026 · 14 EDITIONS · 51 OUTLETS

Riyadh airport closed after successive Houthi attacks kill 14

How this story moved: how many newsrooms carried it at each run, when each one picked it up, how our summary's headline changed, and which figures and names held from the first reports to the latest. Everything here is counted from the coverage; none of it is a judgement of anyone's motives.

OUTLETS CARRYING THE STORY, RUN BY RUN

0 25 51 8 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11 Oct 12 Oct 13 Oct 14 Oct 15 Oct 16 Oct 17 Oct 18 Oct 19 Oct 20 Oct 11 Oct 18:20 UTC · Riyadh airport struck again after deadly Houthi missile attack 12 Oct 06:53 UTC · Projectile hits Riyadh airport terminal in second attack in two days 12 Oct 12:15 UTC · Riyadh Airport Struck Again After Deadly Houthi Attack 12 Oct 18:17 UTC · Riyadh airport struck again after deadly Houthi attack 13 Oct 18:21 UTC · Riyadh airport closed after successive Houthi attacks kill 14

HOW OUR HEADLINE CHANGED · 5 HEADLINES

  1. 11 Oct, 18:20 UTC

    Riyadh airport struck again after deadly Houthi missile attack

  2. 12 Oct, 06:53 UTC

    Projectile hits Riyadh airport terminal in second attack in two days

  3. 12 Oct, 12:15 UTC

    Riyadh Airport Struck Again After Deadly Houthi Attack

  4. 12 Oct, 18:17 UTC

    Riyadh airport struck again after deadly Houthi attack

  5. 13 Oct, 18:21 UTC

    Riyadh airport closed after successive Houthi attacks kill 14

WHAT HELD, WHAT CAME LATER

From the first reports to the latest

  • Nothing ran from the first third of the coverage to the last.

Entered the story later

  • Saudi Arabian · from 12 Oct 09:38, 2 outlets

Figures reported with different numbers

  • people injured: 12 (2 from 11 Oct 13:53) → 13 (3 from 11 Oct 16:49) → 14 (1 from 13 Oct 12:07)
  • people wounded: 300 (1 from 11 Oct 16:42) → 13 (1 from 11 Oct 23:52) → 12 (1 from 12 Oct 06:42)

Matched by pattern, not read: a different number can be a correction, a rising count, or two different counts.