Aramco evacuates staff as Saudi Arabia braces for potential Houthi escalation: What to know
The repeated and escalating Houthi attacks against Saudi Arabia’s energy facilities and airports United States ordered the departure of non-essential government employees and their families from the kingdom, with oil giant Aramco reportedly evacuating its headquarters.
At least four people were killed in new Houthi attacks at Saudi Arabia’s airports and oil facilities on Wednesday evening, prompting Saudi oil giant Aramco to order the evacuation of its staff from its headquarters while the United States asked nonessential government employees in the kingdom to leave.
What happened: Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said on Thursday that two people including an Indian national were killed and another eight injured in an attack at the King Fahd International Airport in the eastern city of Dammam, which was blamed on Yemen’s Houthi group.
Operations resumed Thursday following Wednesday's attack and air traffic returned to normal, the authority added.
Separately on Wednesday, Saudi air defenses intercepted a drone launched by the Houthis toward a southeastern facility at Aramco’s oil field in Shaybah. The fallen debris killed two people, a Filipino and Nepali, according to the Saudi Ministry of Energy.
