Confirmed · King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia ·
Saudi Arabia says one person, identified as a Pakistani national, was killed and 11 injured in a strike on King Khalid International Airport on Sunday 11 October. Al Jazeera, Haaretz and DW report the same toll, with DW and Haaretz describing a second or new attack. The Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) announced a three-phase attack on the airport, per an X account, while Saudi Arabia said a projectile hit Terminal 4 and caused a fire.
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Verification
Confirmed: 2 independent sources.
Sources disagree on:
- Terminal and date differ: an X account (@AryJeayBackup via @MenchOsint) places Yemeni ballistic missile impacts at Terminal 3 on 10 October, while Saudi Arabia, per @MenchOsint, says a projectile hit Terminal 4 on 11 October. These may be two separate strikes merged into one event.
- Attacker: the YAF claim the attack, but the Saudi statement as relayed names only an unknown projectile, and the casualty reports do not attribute the strike.
- Casualty scope: Haaretz's headline mentions a Houthi strike the day before that killed 13, which no other claim supports. The 1 killed and 11 injured figure applies to the Sunday attack only.
- Timing: Haaretz published the 1 killed, 11 wounded figures at 16:12 UTC on 11 October, hours before the Al Jazeera relay of the Saudi statement at 02:16 UTC on 12 October, so the attribution to Saudi Arabia is not clearly shown for Haaretz.
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 | Haaretz (English); Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); DW.com; YAF (via @bonzerbarry (X)) | 4 origins listed, counted as 2 independent |
| Place | King Khalid International Airport, Saudi Arabia | Haaretz (English); Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); DW.com; YAF (via @bonzerbarry (X)) | 4 origins listed, counted as 2 independent |
| Time | 11 Oct (local date) | Haaretz (English); Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)) | Reported by 2 independent origins |
| Time | 10 Oct (local date) | Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)) | One origin |
| Time | 12 Oct (local date) | Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)) | One origin |
| Who did it | Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF) | Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); YAF (via @bonzerbarry (X)) | Reported by 2 independent origins |
| Target | Riyadh airport Terminal 3 | Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)) | One origin |
| Killed | 1 (figure from Haaretz; Saudi Arabia; DW) | Haaretz (English); Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)); DW.com | Figure from 2 independent sources, carried by 3 outlets |
| Injured | 11 (figure from Haaretz; Saudi Arabia) | Haaretz (English); Al Jazeera (via @MenchOsint (X), Al Jazeera English (Telegram)) | Figure from 2 independent sources, carried by 2 outlets |
This table may include reports the automated review judged to be about another incident.
The disagreements listed under Verification are written by the automated review; this table is computed by rules, so the two lists can differ.
Sources
- @MenchOsint (X),
- @MenchOsint (X),
- @bonzerbarry (X),
- Haaretz (English),
- Al Jazeera English (Telegram),
- Al Jazeera,
- DW.com,
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