All the injured were immediately transported to hospitals, civil aviation said.
Published on October 22, 2026
One person was killed and eight injured in an attack on Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd International Airport in the eastern city of Dammam, the country’s civil aviation authority said.
All the injured, whose injuries ranged from minor to serious, were transported to hospitals to receive medical treatment, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Earlier in the day, two people were killed after Saudi air defenses intercepted a drone that attempted to strike a facility at Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oil field, the Energy Ministry said.
It is the latest in a series of attacks on Saudi airports as conflict escalates between Houthi forces and the internationally recognized Yemeni government, backed by Saudi Arabia.
Last week, the kingdom reported that a projectile strike on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on October 11 killed one person and injured 11 others. On October 10, the Civil Aviation Authority reported that a separate attack on the same airport had claimed the lives of 12 people and injured more than 300.
The US State Department on Wednesday ordered diplomats and their family members to leave their missions in Saudi Arabia, amid ongoing Houthi attacks. There are also plans to remove family members from a number of other U.S. missions in the region, U.S. officials told Reuters.
The US Embassy in Riyadh issued a security alert on Wednesday regarding possible new Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia.
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