Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) confirmed on October 22 that one person was killed and eight others injured in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in the eastern city of Dammam.
In its statement, GACA said all the injured, whose conditions range from light to critical, were taken to hospital for treatment. The authority said it would continue to update information on the incident.
Earlier the same day, Saudi Arabia's Energy Ministry announced that two people were killed after the kingdom's air defense systems intercepted a drone targeting a facility at the Shaybah oil field operated by Saudi Aramco.
The incident is the latest in a series of attacks on Saudi airports as the conflict between Houthi forces and Yemen's internationally recognized government, backed by Saudi Arabia, continues to escalate.
Last week, Saudi officials said a missile attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on October 11 killed one person and injured 11 others. A day earlier, on October 10, the country's civil aviation authority reported a separate attack on the same airport that killed 12 people and injured more than 300.
On October 22, the U.S. State Department ordered diplomats and their family members to leave American missions in Saudi Arabia as Houthi attacks continued. U.S. officials told Reuters that Washington also plans to withdraw family members from several other missions in the region.
The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh issued a security warning the same day about the possibility of further Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia.
