{"id":114318,"date":"2026-10-10T17:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/multiple-people-wounded-in-blast-at-riyadh-airport-say-eyewitnesses-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T17:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T17:04:58","slug":"multiple-people-wounded-in-blast-at-riyadh-airport-say-eyewitnesses-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/multiple-people-wounded-in-blast-at-riyadh-airport-say-eyewitnesses-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Multiple people wounded in blast at Riyadh airport, say eyewitnesses | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

The airport urged passengers to contact their airlines directly and check their flight status \u2060before heading there. PHOTO: REUTERS <\/p>\n

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Many people were wounded in a blast at \u200bRiyadh’s international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two \u200cpeople briefed on the matter, and travellers were evacuated from parts of the facility.<\/p>\n

One of the eyewitnesses reported seeing an explosion and then seeing multiple people lying injured on the \u200bground inside the airport. More than a dozen ambulances were seen rushing \u200bto the airport.<\/p>\n

The Saudi government’s media office and the Saudi civil \u2060aviation authority did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the \u200bincident.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s incident comes amid an escalation of missile strikes<\/a> by Yemen’s\u00a0Houthis on the \u200bkingdom. The airport has already been attacked twice this week, leaving four people dead and others wounded, and badly damaging an aircraft.<\/p>\n

Flight-tracking site flightradar24 showed all flights to Riyadh had \u200beither been diverted or cancelled, with only a helicopter hovering over the airport \u200bat one point.<\/p>\n

Read More:<\/strong> Iran’s Pezeshkian says regional diplomacy must go beyond meetings, highlights dialogue, cooperation<\/a><\/p>\n

The airport urged passengers to contact their airlines directly and check their flight \u200cstatus \u2060before heading there.<\/p>\n

Kuwait Airways said it had cancelled flights to and from the Saudi capital due to what it described as the closure of Riyadh airport because of the “security situation” there.<\/p>\n

Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways earlier cancelled multiple flights between their respective \u200bhubs and Riyadh, \u200bwith some cancellations \u2060extending into Monday.<\/p>\n

Houthi attacks on Thursday and earlier in the week had already prompted a number of carriers to suspend \u200bor cancel services to the Saudi capital, shortly before Riyadh \u200bis due \u2060to host major energy and investment conferences<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Organisers of those conferences said on Saturday they would go ahead as planned, and they sought to reassure attendees of their security.<\/p>\n

The \u2060Houthis have \u200bsaid airliners should avoid Saudi airspace, declaring it \u200ba zone of military operations after the Saudi-backed Yemeni government launched an offensive against the group \u200bearlier this month.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The airport urged passengers to contact their airlines directly and check their flight status \u2060before heading there. PHOTO: REUTERS Many people were wounded in a blast at \u200bRiyadh’s international airport on Saturday, according to two eyewitnesses and two \u200cpeople briefed on the matter, and travellers were evacuated from parts of the facility. One of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/fire1791648735-0\/fire1791648735-0-640x480.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t