Attack on Dammam airport kills one, injures eight

Saudi authorities said an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam killed one resident and injured eight people, as the United States ordered some government employees and their families to leave Saudi Arabia. The General Authority of Civil Aviation reported the casualties in a statement on Wednesday. It said the injured people were taken to hospitals, with injuries ranging from minor to critical. The authority did not identify the weapon used or who carried out the attack. Reports also said the airport sustained material damage, but the nature and extent were not detailed. The airport attack was one of two deadly incidents involving Saudi infrastructure reported on Wednesday. Saudi Arabia’s Energy Ministry said debris from an intercepted drone aimed at the Shaybah oil field killed two people and injured two others. The ministry identified the dead as a Nepali and a Filipino national, and the injured as Pakistani and Indian nationals. It did not identify who launched the drone. The two incidents bring the reported death toll across the airport and oil-field events to three. The circumstances of the airport attack remain unestablished, and the casualty statement does...