{"id":56611,"date":"2026-10-12T07:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=56611"},"modified":"2026-10-12T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:26:27","slug":"one-dead-in-new-attack-on-saudi-airport-a-day-after-houthi-strike-kills-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/one-dead-in-new-attack-on-saudi-airport-a-day-after-houthi-strike-kills-13\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead in new attack on Saudi airport, a day after Houthi strike kills 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Reuters :\u00a0 One person was killed and nearly a dozen hurt in a new attack \u200bRiyadh&#8217;s international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities reported, a day after a strike claimed by Yemen&#8217;s Iran-aligned Houthis that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi-led coalition forces in \u200cYemen said an unidentified projectile had targeted Riyadh&#8217;s international airport Terminal 4 on Sunday, causing a fire. Eleven people were wounded in addition to the fatality, the Saudi civil aviation authority said.<\/p>\n<p>Coalition forces also said Saudi air defences had intercepted a cruise missile in the vicinity of King Khalid International Airport. They later added that a drone had been intercepted and destroyed in the country&#8217;s Eastern Province, and a ballistic missile launched towards Khamis Mushait had been intercepted. Emergency alerts were also issued in Abha, in the \u200bsouth, early on Monday but the danger had since passed, the Saudi Civil Defense said.<\/p>\n<p>The strikes have exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi defence capabilities as the kingdom wages an air campaign against the Houthis, \u200bwho are fighting a ground war in Yemen against the Saudi-backed Yemeni government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters :\u00a0 One person was killed and nearly a dozen hurt in a new attack \u200bRiyadh&#8217;s international airport on Sunday, Saudi authorities reported, a day after a strike claimed by Yemen&#8217;s Iran-aligned Houthis that killed 13 people and wounded more than 300. Saudi-led coalition forces in \u200cYemen said an unidentified projectile had targeted Riyadh&#8217;s international [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56613,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56611\/revisions\/56613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}