Riyadh Airport Attack Kills 12, Injures 309

An attack at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh killed 12 people and injured 309, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation said, as flights were diverted and airport operations temporarily suspended on Saturday. The authority said the dead included four Saudi citizens and eight foreign nationals. The injured included people in critical condition, and all were receiving medical care, according to its statement. The two reports repeat the same authority’s figures; they do not provide separate confirmation of the toll. All flights were diverted from Riyadh on Saturday, and operations at the airport were temporarily suspended, the civil aviation authority said. The airport serves a city of roughly 8 million people. The reports did not specify when normal operations resumed or provide a complete assessment of damage. An eyewitness described seeing an explosion and injured people inside the airport. Video reviewed by Reuters showed ambulances there. Those accounts offer details of the scene, while the cause and responsibility for the latest attack were not independently established in the supplied reporting.