Madar (International) - Saudi authorities said two people were killed and eight injured in an attack on Wednesday evening, October 21, 2026, on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, the largest city in the Eastern Province, while Yemen's Houthis said on Thursday the airport was among the sites they had targeted with drones and missiles over the previous 48 hours, the BBC reported.
The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation identified the dead as a Saudi citizen and an Indian resident, without saying what type of attack had occurred. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group had also targeted the Saudi defence ministry headquarters in Riyadh, an Aramco facility in the Red Sea city of Yanbu and Abha International Airport in the south of the kingdom.
Two other people, from the Philippines and Nepal, were killed on Wednesday morning by debris from a drone intercepted as it tried to target an Aramco processing facility in the Shaybah oil field, the Saudi energy ministry said; the Houthis did not claim that attack. The Saudi-led coalition said four drones were intercepted over the Eastern Province on Wednesday night and four more over the Riyadh and Medina provinces on Thursday.
At least 21 people have been killed in Houthi attacks on Saudi airports since the start of October, according to Saudi authorities. The Houthis say their attacks are retaliation for Saudi strikes on the areas they control in western Yemen, where Houthi-run media reported at least six people killed and 11 injured in air and artillery strikes over 24 hours.
