Saudi Arabia: twelve dead and 309 injured in an attack on Riyadh airport blamed on the Houthis
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EgyptCairo denounces the attack on Riyadh airport as a blatant violation of international law and expresses its total solidarity with the kingdom, while the Egyptian press follows the fate of its national killed.
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BelgiumBrussels relays Riyadh's attack via the AFP wire and brings it back to an infrastructure issue: a closed airport, a second one targeted in Dammam, backup platforms threatened.
- Egypt
National
the narrative puts the Egyptian victim in the spotlight among the twelve dead.
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BelgiumAirport
the account focuses on the evacuation platforms rather than the victims.
Relies on anonymous sources
the toll and nationalities are based on an unnamed medical source and an unnamed informed source.
- Egypt
Reliance on agencies
the account of the explosion is based on international dispatches.
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Egypt onlyBelgiumthis perspective does not carry this information