V napadu na letališče v savdski prestolnici Rijad je bilo v soboto ubitih najmanj 12 ljudi, 309 je bilo ranjenih, so sporočile lokalne oblasti. Koalicija pod vodstvom Savdske Arabije je napad danes označila za vojni zločin in napovedala odgovor nanj. Odgovornost za napad je pripisala jemenskim hutijevcem. Ti se na očitke še niso odzvali.
Med žrtvami so štirje Savdijci, dva državljana Bangladeša ter po en državljan ZDA, Jordanije, Palestine, Sirije, Sudana in Egipta, je po poročanju britanskega BBC potrdil savdski urad za civilno letalstvo. Zaradi napada so začasno ustavili delovanje mednarodnega letališča kralja Halida, oblasti pa so sporočile, da škodo na letališču še ocenjujejo, poroča francoska tiskovna agencija AFP.
🇸🇦 BREAKING – AT LEAST 12 KILLED, 50 INJURED IN HOUTHI ATTACK ON RIYADH AIRPORT
At least 12 people were killed and 50 wounded when Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis struck King Khalid International Airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital on Saturday, according to three officials briefed on the attack who spoke to The New York Times.
It was the deadliest attack on a Gulf Arab country since the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran began in February.
Senior Houthi official Mohammed al-Bukhaiti claimed responsibility, describing the strike as retaliation for Saudi airstrikes in Yemen, including attacks on civilian infrastructure.
Saudi Arabia’s civil aviation authority temporarily suspended airport operations while assessing the damage. The attack follows repeated deadly strikes on the same facility this week, disrupting international air traffic and threatening Riyadh’s ambitions to become a major global aviation and business hub.
Saudi warplanes have simultaneously intensified their campaign in Yemen. A spokesman for the Houthi-affiliated health ministry says Saudi airstrikes have killed 91 people since September 3, most of them women and children. That figure has not been independently verified.
President Trump said earlier Saturday that the United States may join Saudi strikes against the Houthis, reversing the possibility of direct intervention after Washington repeatedly declined Riyadh’s requests for military action.
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Pričakuje se eskalacija
Koalicija pod vodstvom Savdske Arabije je napad, ki ga je pripisala jemenskim uporniškim hutijevcem, označila za vojni zločin in napovedala odgovor nanj. Hutijevci se glede sobotnega napada še niso oglasili. So pa pred tem potrdili odgovornost za napade na letališče v Rijadu v četrtek, v katerih so umrli trije ljudje. Medtem ko se je v zadnjih tednih v Jemnu ponovno razplamtela državljanska vojna, ki se je začela leta 2014, so hutijevci okrepili tudi napade na cilje v sosednji Savdski Arabiji. Slednja podpira mednarodno priznano vlado v Jemnu in je že večkrat izvedla zračne napade na hutijevce, ki jih podpira Iran.
C. Š., STA