An attack against Riyadh causes damage to the offices of the world's largest oil company, Saudi Aramco

The offices of Saudi Aramco in Riyadh were damaged this Sunday in an attack in a new escalation between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis of Yemen, backed by Iran. The incident in the administrative building caused no deaths or injuries, as reported by the state-run Saudi Press Agency and later confirmed by the Ministry of Energy.

Aramco's offices in Riyadh are in the King Abdullah financial district, closed for almost a month and whose employees are working remotely to avoid risks. The incident adds to a series of attacks against other facilities of the world's largest oil company in Saudi Arabia, including the one perpetrated in October against its headquarters in Dhahran.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting against the Houthis in Yemen claimed this Sunday to have intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles launched by the rebels against the country's capital, Riyadh.

The recent attack is the most serious attempted attack against Riyadh since a series of bombings against the capital's main airport in October caused more than a dozen deaths and hundreds of injuries. It also comes a day after an air attack against the east of Sanaa, the capital of Yemen. The Houthis claim that at least 33 civilians have been killed in the bombing, attributed to Saudi Arabia. Another 39 were wounded, according to the rebels.

“The death toll has increased due to the atrocious massacre perpetrated by the Saudi-led aggression in the village of Al Shariya, in the Bani Hashish district, east of Sanaa,” said the Houthi Ministry of Health. The figures, he said, are preliminary but among the dead "are twelve men, eight women and thirteen children." “The massacre was the result of several airstrikes that directly and deliberately targeted civilian homes, first response teams, civil defense units and roads,” the note added.

So far, neither Saudi Arabia nor the internationally recognized Yemeni government has reacted to this information.