Riyadh airport attack leaves 12 dead, 309 injured – Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia has reported that astatine slightest 12 radical were killed and 309 others injured successful an onslaught connected King Khalid International Airport successful Riyadh, the country’s capital.

The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) disclosed the casualties successful a connection issued connected Saturday, pursuing the attack.

According to the authority, the deceased comprised 4 Saudi nationals, 2 Bangladeshis, and 1 nationalist each from the United States, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Palestine and Sudan.

“The injured are receiving aesculapian attraction successful hospitals, with immoderate successful captious condition,” the authorization said, adding that officials were assessing the grade of the harm caused by the attack.

Airport operations were temporarily suspended arsenic exigency teams assessed the harm and conducted information checks connected the facilities.

The Saudi-led conjugation warring successful Yemen blamed the Houthi question for the attack, which reportedly targeted a rider terminal astatine the airport.

Coalition spokesperson Turki al-Maliki described the incidental arsenic a usurpation of planetary humanitarian instrumentality and vowed a steadfast response...