Attack on Saudi airport leaves at least 12 dead, 309 wounded

[Grant]

The third attack this week on Riyadh’s international airport on Saturday left at least 12 people dead and more than 300 wounded, Saudi authorities said, as Iran-backed Houthis escalated the campaign they launched this summer against the kingdom.


The dead included four Saudis, two people from Bangladesh and one person each from the US, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, the Saudi civil aviation authority said. At the latest count, officials said, 309 were wounded.

Hospitals were flooded with wounded brought by ambulance and helicopter, people briefed on the matter said. Some were in critical condition.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/10/middleeast/riyadh-airport-saudi-houthis-intl

 

[Sideshow Bob]

Is this reference to 911 attackers ?

“They’re able to defend. The Saudis are good fighters. But I think the attack was a terrible thing,” Trump said when asked whether Saudi Arabia could defend itself against the Houthis.

 

[Gordon_R]

I thought this was a repeat story, but see that the casualties are much higher than the last attack!? The Houthis must be getting supplied with ballistic missiles, since this kind of damage would not be from cheap drones.

Edit: There is also a Wikipedia page describing the recent attacks:

October 2026 King Khalid International Airport attacks - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Edit: The Houthis seem reluctant to claim responsibility for this attack, with so many civilian casualties:

The Houthis have not commented since Saturday's attack but did say they were behind separate strikes on the same airport on Thursday that killed three people and damaged a plane.

 

[MirageF1]

A well known fact to anyone who has ever bothered to do any research into the murderous Ayatollah' 12 Shias regime of Iran who've been in power since 1979 since the overthrow of the Shah- they are by far the biggest supporter/sponsor of terror worldwide.

Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, Islamic Jihad, PFLP, a number of pro Iranian Iraqi Shi'ite militias/factions, others in N Africa, S.America and terror networks and cells throughout the world.

Their ultimate aim and openly profess the total annihilation of Israel, then the U.S/Europe., followed by the subjugation of rest of the world.

Wiki just tells the tip of the iceberg...

Iran and state-sponsored terrorism - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ShaunSA]

Iran backed Houthis?

So the CIA then