Houthi strike on Saudi airport kills 12, worst attack on kingdom in a decade

The dead from the third attack this week on the airport included four Saudis, two people from Bangladesh and one person each from the US, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, the Saudi civil aviation authority said. At the latest count, 309 were wounded, officials said.

President Donald Trump said Washington was considering joining Saudi strikes on the Houthis in the conflict, a spillover ​from the war on Iran that the US and Israel launched in February.

Hospitals were flooded with wounded brought by ambulance and helicopter, some in critical condition after ​the attack, which occurred without warning.

The two previous attacks on King Khalid International Airport this week killed ⁠four and caused heavy damage to a Saudi commercial plane parked on the tarmac. The strikes have exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi defence capabilities as it wages an air campaign against the ​Houthis to support a ground war by the Yemeni government against the Iran-backed group.

The Houthis have not claimed responsibility for the attack, but a Saudi-led military coalition vowed to respond.

Source: Citizen Digital