Saudi Arabia launches 82 strikes in Yemen after airport attacks

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The Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia carried out 82 strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen in response to attacks on airports in Abha and Riyadh.

As a result of shelling at two international airports in Abha and Riyadh, three people were killed, all of them foreigners, and 36 people were injured.

Coalition strikes hit targets in four provinces in northern and western Yemen, including 11 ballistic missile depots, as well as command and communications centers.

DOHA, October 8 - RIA Novosti. The Arab coalition against the Shiite Ansar Allah movement (Houthis) ruling in northern Yemen, led by Saudi Arabia, carried out 82 strikes on Houthi positions in Yemen in response to attacks on airports in Abha and Riyadh, the coalition said in a statement.

Earlier, the kingdom's General Directorate of Civil Aviation reported that three people, all foreigners, were killed and 36 people were injured as a result of shelling at two international airports in the southern city of Abha and in Riyadh.

“Attacks by terrorist militias on international airports in Riyadh and Abha have not and will not go unanswered. Coalition forces struck 82 Houthi military targets,” the coalition website notes.

The strikes hit targets in four provinces in northern and western Yemen.

According to the coalition, 11 ballistic missile warehouses were hit, as well as control and communications centers.