Middle East Eye reports Houthi strikes hit Riyadh international airport since 6 October

Single source · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia · 2026-10-06

Middle East Eye reports that Houthi missile and drone strikes have hit Riyadh's main international airport since 6 October, with at least 20 killed and almost 400 injured across the strikes. No other source in the claim set reports the attack, the casualty figures or the Houthi attribution, and no official confirmation or denial was found.

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Single source: 1 independent source.

Sources disagree on:

• The extracted casualty record lists injured as unknown, while the summary attributed to Middle East Eye cites almost 400 injured; the figure rests on one report and is internally inconsistent in the extraction.

Sources

• Middle East Eye, 2026-10-15 08:00 UTC

First reported 2026-10-15 08:00 UTC; last updated 2026-10-15 08:29 UTC.

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