Many were injured in the latest attack on the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh

Several people were injured in another attack on the international airport in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, authorities said, days after Yemen’s Houthis said they had carried out similar strikes in the area.

Operations at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh were suspended on Saturday after the attack, the Saudi Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.

More than ten ambulances were seen rushing to the airport, according to the Reuters news agency, citing an eyewitness.

The American embassy said it is “aware of the attack on King Khalid International Airport” and urged American citizens to avoid the airport and its surrounding areas.

The attack comes a day after authorities said three Saudis, including the pilot, were killed in two attacks on the airport by Iran-backed Houthis the day before. Three more people were killed in Houthi attacks on two Saudi airports on October 6 and 7.

A source at a local hospital told AFP that dozens of people were injured in Saturday’s incident.

“I saw the 401 being hit, I saw the injured in front of my eyes. Everyone was running,” an eyewitness said they were at the 401 gate at the local station and told the media.

Western diplomats in Saudi Arabia have warned their citizens to stay away from the airport.

Several Gulf airlines said they had canceled their flights to and from the airport. with Kuwait Airways citing a “security situation” there.

All flights to Riyadh have been diverted or cancelled, flight tracker Flightradar shows.

Doctors have been asked to report to the hospitals to correct the situation, a health source told AFP.

“We have been told that we are dealing with a ‘critical emergency’,” a medical source told the agency.

The suspected attack comes amid ongoing fighting between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government forces and the Houthis, who control most of the country’s northwest.

The Houthis say they look to Saudi Arabia for its support of government forces in Yemen’s civil war.

The conflict worsened after the Houthis seized key areas along the Red Sea coast in a rapid offensive.

That included the port of Mokha in the Bab al-Mandab Strait, the narrowest part of the Red Sea and a bottleneck for global shipping. Yemeni pro-government forces have since claimed to have “secured” the southern border of the Red Sea.

A Saudi-led coalition was formed in 2015 after Arab countries came together to stop the Houthis from taking over Yemen from the country’s internationally recognized government.

A temporary ceasefire was imposed in 2022 after years of airstrikes and ground wars led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, creating one of the world’s worst disasters.

But the informal agreement began to unravel in July.

The Houthis declared a “sea embargo” against Saudi Arabia and launched missile and drone attacks on Saudi airports, oil facilities and tankers in the Red Sea. They said they were retaliating against what they described as a years-long Saudi blockade and an airstrike on Sanaa airport.