Riyadh airport passenger terminal hit again a day after strike killed 12
A projectile struck a passenger terminal at the international airport in Riyadh on Sunday, a day after a missile hit the same terminal and killed 12 people, the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen said.
The Houthis claimed responsibility for those attacks and others.
Saudi authorities said there were injuries in the latest attack on the King Khalid International Airport complex for terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights.
Saturday's missile attack was the deadliest in a Gulf Arab nation since the Iran war began, with another 300 people wounded, some critically.
The airport was still closed Sunday.
The sharp escalation in the new front in the war threatens to draw in greater US military involvement, as President Donald Trump has said he is weighing joining the fight against the Houthis.
There was no immediate White House comment Sunday.
India's embassy in Saudi Arabia said one of its citizens died Sunday of injuries sustained in Saturday's attack, which wou
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