Service suspended at a Saudi airport after attack claimed by Houthis

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Operations have been suspended at an airport in Saudi Arabia, a regional source with knowledge of the matter tells AFP, after Yemen’s Houthis claimed they had attacked the site.

The regional source adds that the airport’s main radar was hit, affecting operations.

The airport website the status of flights scheduled for the next few days as “unknown”.

Saudi Arabia has not, so far, issued any comment on the claimed attack.

The small airport is located near the Yemeni border and has a single terminal handling a few flights a day.

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