UN Envoy Condemns Riyadh Airport Strike; Egyptian Flight Attendant Among Dead

The UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, strongly condemned the Houthi rebel strike on the international airport in Riyadh and called on the group to halt similar attacks, news agency Interfax reported. According to the report, the European Union and the African Union also joined in condemning the strike on the Saudi facility.

Concurrently, newspaper Egypt Independent reported that an Egyptian flight attendant was among those killed in the strike, while assessments of material damage to the airport infrastructure remain ongoing. Further details have not yet been released.