The Houthi-led Yemeni Resistance has launched a missile attack, targeting Saudi positions at Riyadh International Airport.According to the Saudi claims, no people were injured as the misisle got intercepted.
However, several passengers reported about a huge explosion at the Middle Eastern terminal, meaning the missile may not have been intercepted and has hit the airport.
The Houthi rebels have since claimed responsibility for the explosion since, saying they fired a long-range ballistic missile that traveled more than 800 km over the border with Saudi Arabia.
A rebel spokesman said they launched a Burkan 2-H missile, which is a SCUD-type missile with a range of more than 800 km.Most the flights at Riyadh International Airport either got canceled or delayed due to the missile attack.
Comment: Saudi air defense forces said on Friday they
had intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired from Yemen in the northeast of the Saudi capital, according to media reports.
Prior to that, reports of a blast at the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh emerged. Social media users have said that pieces of a missile crashed onto the airport.
A Riyadh-based newspaper Al Riyadh has released a video on its Twitter account allegedly showing the interception of a missile.
Photos, allegedly pieces of the intercepted missile, have also emerged on the web.
The Saudi air force
shot down the alleged weapon on Saturday, Al Arabiya reports, adding that no damage has been caused. The missile was allegedly aimed at the King Khalid International Airport.
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said on its official Twitter account that while "the rocket landed on the airport's premises," little damage was caused and all airport facilities were undamaged.
The King Khalid International Airport also posted a statement for passengers, saying that all flights are being operated normally and according to schedule.
Unverified videos have emerged on YouTube allegedly showing the aftermath of the incident. In one of the clips, people can be seen running in all directions, as what looks like smoke rises and some loud explosions and sirens are heard in the background.
A spokesperson for the Ansar Allah-allied Yemeni Armed Forces
confirmed that a ballistic missile aimed at the King Khalid international airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was launched by the army, Saturday.
"Our Yemeni forces succeeded in launching a missile, a Borkan H2 long distance missile, at the King Khalid international airport in north eastern Riyadh which was in response to the massacres committed by the US-Saudi coalition in Yemen. This comes in order to even out power between the coalition and Yemen, who have been attempting to fight more than one country in the past three years," explained the Houthi spokesperson, Colonel Aziz Rashed, who was speaking from Sana'a.
Comment: Saudi air defense forces said on Friday they had intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired from Yemen in the northeast of the Saudi capital, according to media reports. The Saudi air force shot down the alleged weapon on Saturday, Al Arabiya reports, adding that no damage has been caused. The missile was allegedly aimed at the King Khalid International Airport. A spokesperson for the Ansar Allah-allied Yemeni Armed Forces confirmed that a ballistic missile aimed at the King Khalid international airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, was launched by the army, Saturday.