By Sumayya

Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation group expressed on Friday that three Saudi citizens were killed and multiple populations were hurt in two strikes on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on Thursday.

In a note on X, the General Authority of Civil Aviation expressed the initial strike focused on airport setups, while the secondary hit an airplane belonging to Saudi state company Saudia.
The harms spanned from minor to deep, and the strikes caused property ruin, it expressed, adding that airport functions had restarted and air paths had returned to normal.

Yemen’s Houthis expressed on Thursday they had hit the airport with two cruise missiles.

The rebel group likewise expressed it had focused on an airport in the southwestern city of Najran, a claim Saudi authorities have failed to confirm, and an air base in Khamis Mushait with ballistic missiles.

The Houthis state they remain focusing on the kingdom over its backing for state units in Yemen’s restarted civil war. Saudi Arabia says it remains backing an attack by Yemen’s UN-recognized state to take back land from the Houthis.

The newest confirmed dead arrive after Saudi authorities expressed on Wednesday that three populations were killed in earlier strikes this week on Riyadh airport and Abha airport in the southwest of the land.

The fight, now an overspill of the US-Iran war, has brought deeper chaos in an area already shaken by the broader war, and dangers drawing alternate states into mountain combat.