SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani condemned an attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport, that wounded 12 people on Thursday.
“I’m concerned by the recent increase in drone attacks, especially on civilian infrastructure,” the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) premier said in a tweet late on Thursday.
Twelve people were injured at Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport by shrapnel from an explosive-laden drone intercepted by air defenses on Thursday.
The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said shrapnel from the drone attack fell inside airport grounds and some glass facades were damaged.
Light injuries were sustained by two Saudi nationals and citizens of Bangladesh, Nepal, India, the Philippines and Sri Lanka, according to Reuters.
Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Sarea said the group hit a military target at Abha airport with a Qasef 2 drone.
The Houthis often launch attacks on Abha airport, which lies close to the Yemeni border in Saudi Arabia’s south, and other parts of the country with drones and missiles. Most attacks are intercepted but a few people have been killed and several injured.
The Saudi-led coalition has been fighting the Houthis since early 2015, after the group ousted Yemen’s internationally recognized government from power in Sanaa.
