All the injured were immediately transported to hospitals, according to civil aviation there will be updates to come. Published October 22, 2026 October 22, 2026 One person was killed and eight injured in an attack on Saudi Arabia’s King Fahd International Airport in the eastern city of Dammam, the country’s civil aviation authority announced. All of the injured, whose injuries range from minor to critical, were transported to hospitals for medical care, the General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said in a statement on Wednesday. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend list Earlier in the day, two people were killed after Saudi air defenses intercepted a drone attempting to attack a facility at Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oil field, the Energy Ministry said. It was the latest in a series of attacks on Saudi airports as the conflict between Houthi forces and the Saudi-backed, internationally recognized Yemeni government escalates. Last week, the kingdom reported that a projectile attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on October 11 killed one person and injured 11. On October 10, the civil aviation authority reported that a separate attack on the same airport claimed the lives of 12 people and injured more than 300. On Wednesday, the US State Department ordered diplomats and family members to abandon their missions in Saudi Arabia amid the attacks. Houthis in progress. There are also plans to withdraw family members from other US missions in the region, US officials told Reuters. The US embassy in Riyadh on Wednesday issued a security alert about possible new Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia.
