{"id":3085,"date":"2026-10-22T09:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3085"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T04:03:50","slug":"three-killed-in-attacks-on-saudi-airport-oilfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3085","title":{"rendered":"Three killed in attacks on Saudi airport, oilfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Three people were killed and at least 10 injured in separate attacks targeting Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Fahd International Airport in Dammam and Saudi Aramco\u2019s Shaybah oilfield, authorities said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The attacks come amid escalating Houthi assaults on Saudi targets.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the strikes, the US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US \u200bmissions in the region, US officials told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said one person was killed and eight others injured in an attack on King Fahd International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The injured, whose conditions range from minor to critical, were taken to hospitals for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, Saudi air defences intercepted a drone attempting to strike Saudi Aramco\u2019s Shaybah oilfield in the Eastern Province.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry of Energy, falling debris killed two residents, a Filipino and a Nepali, and injured two others, a Pakistani and an Indian.<\/p>\n<p>The incident also sparked a fire in a contractor\u2019s vehicle outside the facility\u2019s perimeter but did not affect oilfield operations.<\/p>\n<p>Recent incidents at Riyadh\u2019s King Khalid International Airport have also resulted in fatalities and hundreds of injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the US State Department has ordered diplomats and their family members to leave its missions in Saudi Arabia, citing security concerns over possible further Houthi attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The US Embassy in Riyadh also issued a security alert warning of potential additional strikes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three people were killed and at least 10 injured in separate attacks targeting Saudi Arabia\u2019s King Fahd International Airport in Dammam and Saudi Aramco\u2019s Shaybah oilfield, authorities said on Wednesday. The attacks come amid escalating Houthi assaults on Saudi targets. Amid the strikes, the US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US \u200bmissions in the region, US officials told Reuters. The Saudi General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA)&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3085\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}