Kochi: Twelve people were killed and over 300 injured when Houthis attacked King Khalid International Airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
The dead included four from Saudi Arabia, two Bangladesh and one each from the US, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, BBC quoting Saudi civil aviation authority said.
Several Gulf airlines had cancelled their flights to and from the airport, with Kuwait Airways citing the “security situation” there.
The Houthis say they are targeting Saudi Arabia over its support for government forces in Yemen’s civil war.
The Houthis are at conflict with Saudi after
a Saudi-led coalition 2015 stopped the Houthis from taking over Yemen from the country’s internationally recognised government has
A temporary ceasefire was brokered in 2022 after years of fighting leading to the hundreds of deaths triggering major humanitarian crises.
The Houthis are known as Ansar Allah or Ansarullah. They are a Zaydi revivalist and Shia Islamist political and paramilitary outfit that emerged from Yemen in the 1990s.
The Houthis are considered part of the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance.
Saudi attack kills 12 different nationals
