Two dead in eastern Saudi airport attack — Aviation authority
An attack on Saudi Arabia’s Dammam airport has killed two people and injured eight others, the country’s civil aviation authority confirmed on Thursday. Read More:…
Dammam, a major city on Saudi Arabia's eastern coast along the Gulf, is home to King Fahd International Airport, one of the country's busiest aviation hubs and a key gateway for workers and pilgrims travelling to and from the oil-rich Eastern Province. The region has occasionally been a target of cross-border attacks blamed on Yemen's Houthi movement or other armed actors, given its proximity to conflict zones in the Gulf and its strategic oil infrastructure, though Saudi authorities have not always been quick to attribute responsibility for such incidents.
Coverage so far agrees that the attack killed two people — identified by Channels TV as a Saudi national and an Indian man — and left eight others injured, according to Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation. Details on the nature of the attack, who or what was behind it, and whether flight operations were disrupted have not yet been reported.