Saudi Arabia: twelve dead and 309 injured in an attack on Riyadh airport blamed on the Houthis
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FranceParis is tallying the victims of the Riyadh airport incident by nationality, based on Saudi sources and AFP dispatches, before relaying American and Pakistani reactions.
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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.
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by the rarity of Saudi admissions
the account highlights the fact that Riyadh rarely comments on strikes hitting civilians.
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the Saturday account relies on anonymous sources relayed by the agency, diplomatic and medical.
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BelgiumAirport
the account focuses on the evacuation platforms rather than the victims.
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the toll and nationalities are based on an unnamed medical source and an unnamed informed source.