DUBAI: Twelve civilians were injured in a drone attack targeting Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport on Thursday, state news agency SPA reported. The Coalition to Restore Legitimacy in Yemen said Saudi defenses have destroyed the drone. It added that it would take operational measures in response to the threat of targeting civilian airports and travelers. Abha airport, along with its
The Houthis often target Abha airport, which lies close to the Yemeni border in Saudi Arabia s south, with drones and missiles (pictured: remnants of a drone shot down at the airport last year).
DUBAI (Reuters) -Four people were lightly injured at Saudi Arabia s Abha airport by shrapnel from a drone intercepted by air defences on Thursday, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yeman s Iran-aligned Houthis said. The injured included travellers and workers, the coalition said in comments carried by state news channel Ekhbariya. The coalition has been fighting the Houthis since early 2015, after the group ousted Yemen s internationally recognised government from power in the capital Sanaa. The Houthis often target Abha airport, which lies close to the Yemeni border in Saudi Arabia s south, and other parts of the country with drones and missiles. Most are intercepted but a few people have been killed and several injured. The coalition regularly carries out air strikes on what it says are Houthi military targets in Yemen. The United Arab Emirates, a coalition member, twice in January said its forces destroyed a Houthi ballistic missile launch area in Yemen, after unprecedented drone and
Four people were lightly injured at Saudi Arabia s Abha airport by shrapnel from a drone intercepted by air defences today, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen s Houthis said. According to Reut.