{"id":1451638,"date":"2026-10-12T07:44:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/houthis-attack-riyadh-airport-again-one-dead-and-one-injured\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:44:56","slug":"houthis-attack-riyadh-airport-again-one-dead-and-one-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/houthis-attack-riyadh-airport-again-one-dead-and-one-injured\/","title":{"rendered":"Houthis attack Riyadh airport again: one dead and one injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh has been attacked for the second time in two days, killing one person and wounding 11 others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/yemens-houthis-renew-warning-over-saudi-airports-after-deadly-riyadh-attack-2026-10-11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> this.<\/p>\n<p> According to Saudi authorities, an unidentified projectile hit the airport&#8217;s fourth terminal and caused a fire.<\/p>\n<p> Saudi-led coalition forces also reported that they intercepted a cruise missile near King Khalid International Airport.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, a drone was shot down in the east of the country, and air defense forces intercepted a ballistic missile launched towards the city of Khamis Mushait.<\/p>\n<p> After a series of strikes, the Houthis warned airlines, passengers, and airport workers about the dangers of using Saudi Arabian air harbors.<\/p>\n<p> The group named the airports of Mecca and Medina as exceptions.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe call on everyone to take our warnings seriously. Saudi Arabia bears responsibility for any failed interceptions,\u201d the Houthis said.<\/p>\n<p> The previous day, on October 10, the same airport was hit by a drone strike, the deadliest in Saudi Arabia in more than a decade. Initially, 12 people were reported dead and more than 300 injured, but another Indian national who was injured later died, bringing the death toll to 13.<\/p>\n<p> The Houthis also claimed attacks on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam and two Saudi Aramco facilities.<\/p>\n<p> The escalation comes amid an intensified Saudi-led operation against the Houthis in Yemen. Riyadh has stepped up airstrikes in recent weeks, supporting the offensive of Yemeni government forces.<\/p>\n<p> Previously, <strong>&#8220;Pryamiy&#8221;<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/yemen-oholosyv-masshtabnu-viyskovu-operatsiiu-proty-khusytiv\">wrote about a large-scale military operation by the Yemeni government against the Houthis<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh has been attacked for the second time in two days, killing one person and wounding 11 others. Reuters reports this. According to Saudi authorities, an unidentified projectile hit the airport&#8217;s fourth terminal and caused a fire. Saudi-led coalition forces also reported that they intercepted a cruise missile near King [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1208525,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1451638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}