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Saudi Aramco Building Damaged In Missile Attack On Riyadh
An administrative building belonging to Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil company, Saudi Aramco, has been damaged by falling debris following an attempted missile attack on the capital, Riyadh.
NBC News reported that the Saudi Energy Ministry confirmed the incident on Sunday, saying the attack caused limited damage, with no injuries or fatalities recorded.
A witness reported that windows were blown out across several floors of the Aramco Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Riyadh’s King Abdullah Financial District.
The incident followed an announcement by the Saudi-led coalition that it had intercepted and destroyed two cruise missiles fired towards Riyadh and the kingdom’s southern region.
Multiple loud explosions were heard across the capital earlier on Sunday, according to a witness, shortly after Saudi Civil Defense issued an early-warning alert over a potential threat in the region.
Authorities later announced that the danger had passed.
The latest incident comes amid an escalation in attacks by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi rebels against Saudi airports, ports and oil facilities since fighting resumed in July, opening another front in the wider Middle East conflict reignited by US and Israeli attacks on Iran in February.
Saudi Arabia has also carried out airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen.
Earlier on Sunday, Saudi Civil Defense issued and subsequently lifted warnings across several areas of the oil-rich Eastern Province, including Dhahran, where Saudi Aramco’s headquarters is located.
The Eastern Province holds most of Saudi Arabia’s oil and gas reserves. Aramco’s headquarters reportedly suffered extensive damage in an attack in October.
The renewed hostilities have also affected civilian infrastructure, with an attack on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on October 10 killing 13 people and injuring more than 300, according to Saudi authorities.
The escalation has effectively shattered a United Nations-brokered truce reached in 2022, which had largely halted fighting between the Saudi-led coalition and the Houthis.
Saudi Arabia led a coalition of Arab states into Yemen in 2015 to restore the internationally recognised government after the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa.
The latest developments came a day after Yemen’s Houthi-run Health Ministry said Saudi airstrikes killed at least 33 people near Sanaa. Saudi authorities said they were investigating the reported casualties.
