One person was killed and eight others were injured in an attack on King Fahd International Airport in the eastern Saudi city of Dammam on Wednesday evening, Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority announced. The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said in a statement that the wounded, whose injuries ranged from minor to critical, were taken to hospitals, and that material damage was being assessed.

GACA did not say what kind of attack struck the airport, saying more information would follow once inspections were complete. The incident came on the same day the kingdom's energy ministry said two people were killed when debris fell after Saudi air defences intercepted a drone targeting an Aramco facility at the Shaybah oilfield, while the Saudi-led coalition said it had intercepted and destroyed five more drones heading toward areas including the Eastern Province, according to Anadolu Agency. The strikes are part of an escalating campaign by Yemen's Houthis against Saudi airports and energy infrastructure — last week, GACA reported that projectile strikes on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport on October 10 and 11 killed 13 people and injured more than 300 in total.

The same day, the US State Department ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and planned to pull family members from other missions in the region, and the US embassy in Riyadh issued a security alert warning of possible further Houthi attacks, Reuters reported. For the lakhs of Indian and Punjabi workers living in the Gulf, Dammam and the Eastern Province are a major work and travel corridor, so airport disruptions and airline schedule changes there matter directly to families on both sides.