Dubai: A bomb-laden drone on Tuesday targeted an airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, wounding eight people and damaging a civilian plane, state television reported.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, the second such strike on Abha airport in the last 24 hours. The earlier attack caused no casualties.
The Arab Coalition said in statements carried by state TV that the second drone attack on the airport amounts to a war crime.
The attack comes just days after missiles and drones smashed into a key military base in Yemen’s south, killing at least 30 Saudi-backed Yemeni troops and marking one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s yearslong civil war.
Since 2015, Yemen’s Houthi militants battling the Arab Coalition have targeted international airports, along with military installations and critical oil infrastructure, within Saudi Arabia. AP
