Major Houthi attack on Saudi airport kills at least 12, hundreds wounded

At least 12 people were killed and hundreds wounded on Saturday when Yemen’s Houthi militants struck an airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital, as the Iran-backed group escalated its campaign against the kingdom.

It was the third strike on the international hub this week, and the deadliest attack against the major US ally in more than a decade. The attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport killed four Saudi citizens, two Bangladeshi residents, and one resident each from the US, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine, and Sudan, the kingdom’s civil aviation body said Sunday, adding that 309 people were wounded. One traveler told Reuters news agency they saw something fly across the sky outside before part of the ceiling near a departure gate collapsed.Read More....