An Egyptian flight attendant and a Palestinian were killed in the attack on Riyadh airport

The Saudi authorities temporarily suspended operational operations at the airport to assess the damage and verify the safety of its facilities.

A medical source at a hospital in Riyadh that received the victims of the attack said that the two dead and those killed included an Egyptian flight attendant working for a Saudi airline and a Palestinian man carrying Egyptian travel documents, confirming the killing of the two people. Another source familiar with the incident, who requested anonymity, also confirmed the nationalities of the two victims.

Medical sources reported that the attack caused dozens of people to be injured, some of them in critical conditions, noting that emergency doctors were called to hospitals across the capital to deal with the influx of injured people. Medical sources said that a number of the wounded were transported to hospitals by helicopters, and that among the injured were pilgrims.

The Saudi authorities did not announce a final death toll or full details about the nature of the attack.

The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation announced the temporary suspension of operational operations at King Khalid International Airport, stressing that the decision was taken to complete the damage assessment and verify the safety of the facilities, in light of what it described as the continued attacks targeting civil aviation facilities in the Kingdom.

Agence France-Presse quoted a diplomatic source as saying that a missile fired by the Houthis hit the airport at approximately three o'clock in the afternoon, local time.

Western embassies called on their employees to avoid traveling to and from Riyadh airport during the following week, according to a Western diplomat who spoke to the agency, while Kuwait Airways announced the cancellation of two flights to and from Riyadh due to the closure of the airport and the security situation.

The attack comes after a series of strikes that targeted Saudi airports during the previous days, resulting, according to the Saudi authorities, in deaths and injuries. The General Authority of Civil Aviation announced the killing of three people in two attacks on King Khalid Airport on Thursday, after three others were killed in attacks on Riyadh and Abha airports earlier in the week.

In a related development, the spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition, Turki Al-Maliki, announced on Saturday night that a projectile had fallen in the vicinity of King Fahd International Airport in the city of Dammam, east of the Kingdom.