Saudi-led coalition spokesperson says Riyadh airport attacked 20 times since 1 October

The spokesman for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, Turki al-Maliki, said on Thursday that King Khalid International Airport north of Riyadh had been subjected to 20 attacks since the start of October. Talking at a press conference in Riyadh, al-Maliki said that attacks on the airport had killed 17 people and injured 333 others between 7-11 October. Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia’s airports “pose a threat to regional security”, he told reporters. Al-Maliki added that coalition forces had destroyed 127 Houthi militia ballistic missile depots in the mountains near Yemen’s capital, Sanaa.