All injured individuals were immediately transported to hospitals, civil aviation says updates to come.
Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said in a statement on Thursday that the number of people killed in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in the eastern city of Dammam has risen to two – a Saudi national and an Indian resident.
The GACA also said the attack which took place on Wednesday left eight people wounded.
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Earlier in the day, two people were killed after Saudi air defences intercepted a drone that was attempting to hit a facility at Saudi Aramco’s Shaybah oilfield, the Ministry of Energy said.
It was the latest in a series of assaults on Saudi infrastructure as…
