A fresh Ansar Allah attacks hit Riyadh's international airport on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 11 others, a day after another deadly attack claimed by the Yemeni group forced authorities to suspend operations there.
Saturday's attack, the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade, was a sharp escalation in the Yemen war, where Riyadh has long militarily supported the internationally recognised government against the Ansar Allah.
The Ansar Allah on Sunday claimed multiple attacks over the last 24 hours, including on the airport, and threatened to keep targeting the kingdom's transit hubs, calling them "a theatre of operations for our forces".
Hours later, the Saudi-led coalition fighting the group reported that a projectile struck King Khalid International Airport, sparking a fire.
Air defences also intercepted a missile nearby, it added.
The fresh attack on the airport killed one person -- a Pakistani resident -- and wounded 11 others, Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said on X.
Authorities have extended the closure of the airport by 24 hours until 2100 GMT on Monday, the tracking site Flightradar24 said on the same platform.
AFP journalists and locals reported hearing multiple blasts in the Saudi capital on Sunday.
"The birds went into a frenzy after the sound. The whole house shook," said one resident of the Al-Aarid neighbourhood in the north of the city.
The civil aviation authority also reported another attack on Dammam airport in the east -- which the Houthis also said they had targeted -- a day after the Saudi coalition reported a projectile landing nearby.
Shortly afterwards, the coalition reported shooting down a drone, also in the east.
It said early on Monday that it had also "intercepted and destroyed" a Houthi ballistic missile heading for the southern Saudi city of Khamis Mushait, home to a major military base.
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