Disputed · Riyadh airport, Saudi Arabia ·
Multiple outlets report a Houthi missile strike on an airport in Saudi Arabia, several naming Riyadh airport, and say Saudi Arabia vowed retaliation and is probing air-defence failures. Reported casualties differ: RFE/RL says 1 killed and 11 injured, The Washington Post says at least 12 killed, and Bloomberg says people were killed and hundreds injured.
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Verification
Disputed: 7 independent sources.
Sources disagree on:
- Death toll: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports 1 killed, while The Washington Post reports at least 12 killed; Bloomberg gives no death count.
- Injured: RFE/RL reports 11 injured, while Bloomberg reports hundreds injured.
- Location: Israel Hayom, BBC, Bloomberg and the AP-style headline name Riyadh airport, while RFE/RL, WaPo, CNN and Yahoo say only 'Saudi airport'. Bloomberg's 'hit again' suggests more than one strike, so the figures may refer to different incidents or times.
- No Saudi government or Houthi statement is cited, so the casualty figures and the site hit cannot be checked against a primary source.
Details by origin
Each detail, with the independent origins that reported it. An origin is the outlet or channel where a claim first appeared; reposts count once. A row counts no more independent origins than the event does above; where it lists more, it says so. This counts reports: it is not a measure of accuracy, and it does not change the event's status. "Reports differ" means two origins gave values that cannot both be true; it is about that detail, not about whether the incident happened.
| Detail | Reported | Reported by | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| What happened | Missile attack | The Jerusalem Post; www.israelhayom.com; The Washington Post; CNN; Bloomberg.com; Ynetnews; U.S. News & World Report; The Times of Israel; Financial Times; Yahoo; BBC; KSAT (via Oskaloosa Herald, Ottumwa Courier, wdtimes.com); Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | 13 origins listed, counted as 7, not corroborated; limited by the event's status |
| Place | Riyadh airport, Saudi Arabia (a nearby place is also named) | www.israelhayom.com; Bloomberg.com; BBC; KSAT (via Oskaloosa Herald, Ottumwa Courier, wdtimes.com); consistent with it: The Jerusalem Post; The Washington Post; CNN; U.S. News & World Report; The Times of Israel; Financial Times; Yahoo; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | 4 origins, not corroborated; limited by the event's status |
| Place | Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (a nearby place is also named) | Ynetnews; consistent with it: The Jerusalem Post; The Washington Post; CNN; U.S. News & World Report; The Times of Israel; Financial Times; Yahoo; Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | One origin |
| Who did it | Houthis | The Jerusalem Post; www.israelhayom.com; The Washington Post; CNN; Bloomberg.com; Ynetnews; The Times of Israel; Financial Times; Yahoo; KSAT (via Oskaloosa Herald, Ottumwa Courier, wdtimes.com); Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | 11 origins listed, counted as 7, not corroborated; limited by the event's status |
| Killed | 1 (figure from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Reports differ |
| Killed | at least 12 (a lower bound) (figure from The Washington Post) | The Washington Post | Reports differ |
| Injured | 11 (earlier figure) (figure from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) | Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty | Figure from 1 source, carried by 1 outlet |
| Injured | 100 (later figure) (figure from Bloomberg) | Bloomberg.com | Figure from 1 source, carried by 1 outlet |
Not stated in any report: time.
This table may include reports the automated review judged to be about another incident.
No detail reads as corroborated while the event itself does not.
The disagreements listed under Verification are written by the automated review; this table is computed by rules, so the two lists can differ.
Sources
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty,
- The Jerusalem Post,
- www.israelhayom.com,
- The Washington Post,
- CNN,
- Bloomberg.com,
- Ynetnews,
- U.S. News & World Report,
- The Times of Israel,
- Financial Times,
- Yahoo,
- BBC,
- wdtimes.com,
- Ottumwa Courier,
- KSAT,
- Oskaloosa Herald,
First reported ; last updated .
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