Stock photo of drone flying.
- The drone strikes injured several people, including a Saudi national, a Nepalese, three Indians and three Bangladeshis.
This is the second drone that has attempted to attack Abha International Airport.
- Airport flights have been temporarily suspended, “to ensure the safety of the planes entering and exiting the airport and the safety of civilians at the airport.”
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition said when fighting against Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen that a drone attacked Saudi Arabia’s Abha Airport and injured eight people.
After the attack reported earlier, “the second drone attempting to attack Abha International Airport was intercepted and shot down,” the coalition issued a statement on the country’s official Al-Ekhbariya TV channel on Tuesday. Means in.
“According to preliminary information, eight people were injured and one civilian aircraft was damaged,” it added.
The coalition stated that the second attack on the airport “constituted a war crime” after intercepting a drone equipped with a booby trap earlier in the day.
The coalition stated in a second statement that the injured included a Saudi national, a Nepalese, three Indians and three Bangladeshis-one of whom is in critical condition.
The coalition also stated that it launched a military operation against the launch pad used by the Yemeni capital Sana’a, which has been under the control of the rebels since 2014 and was used for the Abha attack.
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It added that it “destroyed the terrorists responsible for the attack”.
According to Al-Ekhbariya, after the coalition intercepted the first attack, shrapnel hit parts of the airport runway.
It added that flights have been temporarily suspended, “to ensure the safety of civilians in and out of the aircraft and at the airport.”
The rebels have not yet commented on this incident.
Running-in conflict
A few days ago, missiles and drones attacked an important military base in southern Yemen, killing at least 30 Saudi-backed Yemeni troops. This was one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s civil war that lasted for several years.
No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
In 2015, shortly after the Houthi armed forces occupied Sana’a, Saudi Arabia intervened in the Yemen war on behalf of an internationally recognized government. Insurgents allied with Iran have repeatedly targeted cross-border attacks.
The fierce conflict in Yemen has claimed tens of thousands of lives and displaced millions of people, leading to what the United Nations calls the most serious humanitarian crisis in the world.
While the United Nations is pushing for an end to the war, the Houthis are demanding the reopening of Sana’a Airport, which has been closed under the Saudi blockade since 2016, before any ceasefire or negotiations.
Hans Grundberg, the incoming UN special envoy for Yemen, will officially take up his duties on September 5.
