1 Indian killed, 10 others injured after Riyadh airport attacks; EAM says India 'doing everything necessary'
The Indian national who died on Sunday is one among 12 people killed and 300 injured in the Oct 10 airstrike on the Riyadh airport, as per new Saudi data
The Indian national who died on Sunday is one among 12 people killed and 300 injured in the Oct 10 airstrike on the Riyadh airport, as per new Saudi data.
The Indian national who died on Sunday is one among 12 people killed and 300 injured in the Oct 10 airstrike on the Riyadh airport, as per new Saudi data.
The Indian national who died on Sunday is one among 12 people killed and 300 injured in the Oct 10 airstrike on the Riyadh airport, as per new Saudi data.
India's External Affairs Minister (EAM) S. Jaishankar on Sunday condoled the death of an Indian national, who had been injured alongside 10 others after the Houthi attacks on the King Khalid International Airport a day earlier.
"Our Embassy is doing everything necessary in this difficult situation," he wrote on X, adding in a follow-up post that it would offer "all possible assistance" to the family of the slain Indian national.
The Indian national who died on Sunday is one among 12 people killed in the airstrike on the Riyadh airport. 300 others were also injured, as per new data from Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authorities.
"We are in touch with the family and will provide all support for ensuring the early repatriation of mortal remains," read a statement from the Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia.
The Iran-backed Houthis have also claimed responsibility for attacks on Saudi's Dammam airport and Aramco sites in the eastern regions of the kingdom, a Reuters report said, though Riyadh is yet to confirm this.
The Riyadh airport also came under attack earlier on Sunday, though the Saudi-led coalition battling the Houthis had said that it had managed to intercept a cruise missile before it could deal major damage.
This came as the Houthis doubled down on their warning to people and airlines, calling Saudi airports "unsafe" as their attacks on the kingdom intensify.
The situation has led to carriers around the world cancelling Riyadh flights en masse, as the kingdom's civil aviation chokes at a time when business and travel trips are typically on the rise.
"The airports and airspace are exposed to targeting and constitute a theatre of operations for our forces," Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree wrote in an X post.
The Houthi attacks on the kingdom—that supports the internationally-recognised government in Yemen that is opposed to it—also risk opening up another front in the West Asia crisis, as Donald Trump said on Sunday that the US "may" join in Saudi's strikes against the Houthis, and that they were looking into it.
“We just found out about the recent attack. So, we’ll make a decision. We move very quickly," he told reporters, just days after an MS NOW report pointed out, citing Saudi officials, that the kingdom has requested "urgent defence support" from the US.