Saudi civil aviation said attacks on Abha and King Khalid airports on 6 and 7 October killed three people and wounded dozens. The Houthis said they carried out the strikes.
Three people were killed in attacks on two Saudi airports over two days, Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said, the BBC reported. Two people were killed and 28 wounded at Abha International Airport. One person was killed and eight were wounded at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. The authority said the airports were attacked on 6 and 7 October and did not specify which strike fell on which day.
The authority said the two people killed at Abha were women, one Moroccan and one Algerian. The person killed at King Khalid was a Sudanese male resident. It did not name a responsible party. Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group's forces attacked both airports with ballistic missiles and drones, the BBC reported.
The strikes come during renewed fighting in Yemen between Saudi-backed government forces and the Iran-backed Houthis. The BBC described the airport attacks as an escalation that crossed the border into the kingdom. Abha lies near the Yemen border.
The casualty figures in this brief are those the BBC attributed to the civil aviation authority. A separate Dawn report put combined wounded at 36, which matches the 28 and 8 figures, but described the Abha dead as Egyptian and Algerian. This brief uses the BBC's Moroccan and Algerian description.
The authority's statement did not set out a reopening time for either airport. No independent damage survey was included in the BBC report.