{"id":560,"date":"2026-10-12T21:05:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=560"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:06:47","slug":"riyadh-airport-shut-houthi-missiles-13-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=560","title":{"rendered":"HOUTHI MISSILES SHUT DOWN RIYADH\u2019S AIRPORT! | 13 dead and 300+ hurt in the terminal Saturday, another hit Monday \u2014 and Saudi air defenses keep leaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia\u2019s front door is bolted shut. The kingdom extended its suspension of <strong>all flights<\/strong> in and out of <strong>King Khalid International Airport<\/strong> in Riyadh on Monday after a fresh round of Houthi missiles caused more damage and left <strong>one more person dead<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/12\/saudi-arabia-suspends-flights-latest-deadly-houthi-attack-airport\">The Guardian<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>That came on top of Saturday\u2019s strike, when Houthi missiles killed <strong>13 people<\/strong> and injured <strong>more than 300<\/strong>. Saudi state TV aired CCTV of passengers swallowed by smoke and falling masonry as they queued to board a plane.<\/p>\n<p>The aviation authority says the airport stays closed until its safety is verified, and the military says more missile and drone threats have been detected. Schoolchildren and some office workers were told to stay home. The Houthis have also gone after Khamis Mushait and Dammam\u2019s King Fahd airport, and they\u2019ve vowed to hit Saudi airports across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Riyadh kept its big energy conference running anyway. Energy minister Abdulaziz bin Salman told the room that \u201cfear has no place in the Saudi lexicon.\u201d An urgent review is under way into how the missiles keep getting through.<\/p>\n<p>NPR calls it the deadliest attack on a Gulf Arab state since the Iran war began, and it\u2019s raising fresh worries that the U.S. gets pulled directly into another regional fight. The UN Security Council is expected to debate a resolution Tuesday branding the Houthis a foreign terrorist organisation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/oct\/12\/saudi-arabia-suspends-flights-latest-deadly-houthi-attack-airport\">The Guardian \u2014 Saudi Arabia further suspends flights after latest deadly Houthi attack on airport (Oct. 12, 2026)<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/10\/12\/nx-s1-5998041\/deadly-houthi-attacks-on-saudi-arabia-raise-stakes-for-us\">NPR \u2014 Deadly Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia raise stakes for US (Oct. 12, 2026)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 dead and 300+ hurt in the terminal Saturday, another hit Monday \u2014 and Saudi air defenses keep leaking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-riyadh-airport-houthi-1012.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}