Two Killed, Eight Injured in Attack on Saudi Arabia’s Dammam Airport
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Two people were killed and eight injured in an attack Wednesday evening on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said Thursday.
The authority identified the dead as a Saudi citizen and an Indian national, updating an earlier toll of one fatality. Saudi officials said damage at the airport in the kingdom’s Eastern Province was still being assessed. The Indian Embassy in Riyadh said two other Indian citizens were among those injured and urged Indians in Saudi Arabia to follow local authorities’ instructions and seek shelter during aerial attacks.
It occurred amid intensified attacks on Saudi infrastructure by Yemen’s Houthi movement. Separately Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a drone in the Riyadh region.
Another drone attack Wednesday targeted a Saudi Aramco project at the Shaybah oil field in the Eastern Province, according to Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry. A Nepali worker and a Palestinian national were killed, while Pakistani and Indian workers were injured. The ministry said air defenses intercepted a drone headed toward a processing facility, but a contractor’s vehicle caught fire outside the facility perimeter. Oil-field operations were not affected.
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Two Killed, Eight Injured in Attack on Saudi Arabia’s Dammam Airport
Two people were killed and eight injured in an attack Wednesday evening on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said Thursday.
The authority identified the dead as a Saudi citizen and an Indian national, updating an earlier toll of one fatality. Saudi officials said damage at the airport in the kingdom’s Eastern Province was still being assessed. The Indian Embassy in Riyadh said two other Indian citizens were among those injured and urged Indians in Saudi Arabia to follow local authorities’ instructions and seek shelter during aerial attacks.
No responsibility for the Dammam attack was identified in the reports. It occurred amid intensified attacks on Saudi infrastructure by Yemen’s Houthi movement. Separately Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed a drone in the Riyadh region.
Another drone attack Wednesday targeted a Saudi Aramco project at the Shaybah oil field in the Eastern Province, according to Saudi Arabia’s energy ministry. A Nepali worker and a Palestinian national were killed, while Pakistani and Indian workers were injured. The ministry said air defenses intercepted a drone headed toward a processing facility, but a contractor’s vehicle caught fire outside the facility perimeter. Oil-field operations were not affected.
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