Attack on Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd airport kills 1, injures 8 — Pajhwok

KABUL (Pajhwok): One person has been killed and eight others injured in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, eastern Saudi Arabia, the country’s civil aviation authority has said. The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said in a statement on Wednesday that the injured had sustained wounds ranging from minor to critical and had been taken to hospitals for treatment, Al Jazeera reported. Earlier in the day, two people were killed after Saudi air defences intercepted a drone attempting to strike a facility at Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield, the Ministry of Energy said. The incident is the latest in a series of attacks on Saudi airports as the conflict intensifies between Houthi forces and Yemen’s internationally recognised government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia. Last week, Saudi Arabia reported that a projectile strike on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on 11 October killed one person and injured 11 others. On 10 October, a separate attack on the same airport killed 12 people and injured more than 300, according to the civil aviation authority. Meanwhile, the US State Department on Wednesday ordered diplomats and their family members to leave US diplomatic missions in Saudi Arabia amid continued Houthi attacks. US officials told Reuters that Washington was also planning to withdraw family members of staff from several other…