At least 12 people have been killed and 309 injured in an attack on an airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh, local authorities say.
The deaths included four Saudis, two people from Bangladesh and one person each from the US, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan and Egypt, the Saudi civil aviation authority said. Operations at King Khalid International Airport have been suspended.
A Saudi-led military coalition later vowed to respond to the attack, which it blamed on the Houthis and called a "war crime". The Houthis said they were behind strikes on the airport on Thursday that killed three people and damaged a plane, but did not immediately take responsibility for the attacks on Saturday.
Fighting has recently escalated between Yemen's Saudi-backed government forces and the Houthis, who control most of the country. Saturday's attack was the deadliest in the kingdom since May 2015. As well as the strikes on Riyadh's airport, a projectile also fell near King Fahd International Airport in Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia on Saturday, the Saudi-led coalition said.
The attacks come a day after authorities said three Saudis including a pilot were killed in two attacks on the airport by the Iran-backed Houthis the day prior. Another three people were killed in Houthi attacks on two Saudi airports on 6 and 7 October.
In Saturday's statement, the Saudi civil aviation authority said some of the injured were "in critical condition".It said damage to the airport was being assessed.
An eyewitness who said they had been in the domestic terminal told the news agency that they had seen gate 401 hit and "injured [people] in front of my eyes", adding: "Everyone was running." More than a dozen ambulances were seen rushing to the airport, according to news agency Reuters, citing an eyewitness.
Saudi-led coalition spokesman Maj Gen Turki al-Maliki later said the attack on one of the passenger terminals resulted in deaths and injuries among civilian passengers and airport staff.
He described the attack as a "full-fledged war crime". US Secretary of State Marco Rubio strongly condemned recent attacks on Saudi Arabia as he confirmed an American citizen was killed in the strikes.
When later asked by reporters whether the US planned to join Saudi Arabia in carrying out strikes against the Houthis, President Donald Trump said: "We may. We're going to look at it. We just found out about the recent attack, so we'll make a decision. We move very quickly."
The UN special envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, warned that the latest attacks against Saudi Arabia "represent a grave escalation" and also "pose a serious threat to regional security". The attacks were also condemned by Egypt, Palestine and Qatar.
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