A fire broke out at an oil storage facility belonging to Saudi Aramco in Riyadh on Saturday, according to business-gazeta.ru. The outlet reported that the blaze involved a fuel tank, citing AFP. Black smoke and flames were seen near Riyadh's airport following an air alert, Euronews.com reported.
Yemen's Houthi movement said it carried out a series of strikes on targets inside Saudi Arabia, according to Interfax. The Houthis acknowledged the attack, the BBC reported. The BBC also said an air alert was declared in the Saudi capital and that something was burning near the airport.
The reports describe the incident as centered on a storage tank rather than a wider facility. The accounts differ in emphasis — some point to an Aramco fuel reservoir, others to smoke near the airport — and no casualty figures or damage estimates were given in the material available. Saudi authorities had not issued a statement in the reporting summarized here.
