Three people have been killed in attacks on Saudi Arabia airports over two days, authorities said, as flare-up of preventing spilled across the Yemen border into the kingdom.
Two people were killed and 28 wounded in an attack at Abha International Airport, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (Gaca) said in a assertion on Wednesday.
In a separate incident, one individual was killed and eight were wounded in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, it added.
The attacks, which the Houthis have claimed accountability for, mark an escalation in the renewed struggle between the Saudi-backed authorities forces and the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen.
The two airports were attacked on 6 and 7 October, according to Gaca, which did not specify when each airport was hit.
Two ladies, of Moroccan and Algerian nationalities, were killed during the Abha airport attack, close to the Yemen border, according to Gaca.
Meanwhile, a male resident of Sudanese nationality was killed at King Khalid airport, it added.
The nation’s civil aviation authority did not title who was accountable for the attacks, but Houthi navy spokesperson, Yahya Saree, said its armed forces had attacked both Saudi Arabia airports with ballistic missiles and drones.
The Houthi navy spokesperson also said the Houthis attacked Aden’s International Airport in Yemen on Wednesday. The airport is a principal worldwide gateway for components of Yemen outside of Houthi control and has been repeatedly focused when preventing erupts in the nation.
Saree said the two attacks on Saudi Arabia’s airports were in “response to the Saudi aggression against our country” which saw “60 airstrikes and missile attacks in the past 24 hours”.
The civil struggle in Yemen has worsened in current weeks, after the Houthis, who control most of the nation’s north-west, seized strategically important stretches of the Red Sea coast in a speedy offensive.
That included the port of Mokha on the Bab al-Mandab Strait, which is the narrowest level of the Red Sea and a chokepoint for international transport.
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