*KARACHI / RIYADH: **Pakistan strongly responds over attack on Saudi ArabiaAirport.*
Pakistan has strongly condemned yet another attack by Yemeni rebels on acivilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia, resulting in one death andinjuries to 21 others on Sunday night.
“Pakistan reiterates its full support and solidarity with the brotherlyKingdom of Saudi Arabia against any threat to its security and territorialintegrity,” read a statement issued by the Foreign Office on Monday.
The strike was carried out by Yemeni rebels, a Riyadh-led coalition said,in a new escalation following a series of strikes on the site.
The attack on Abha airport, which the coalition said left a McDonaldsoutlet at the site littered with shattered glass and damaged 18 vehicles,comes amid spiralling regional tensions with Iran.
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The escalation of attacks by Iran-aligned Huthi rebels on Saudi citiesthreatens a hard-won UN-sponsored ceasefire deal for the Red Sea port cityof Hodeida, war-ravaged Yemen’s main conduit for humanitarian aid.
“A terrorist attack by the Iran-backed Huthi militia on Abha airport…killed a Syrian resident and wounded 21 civilians,” the coalition said in astatement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
The wounded — from Saudi Arabia, Egypt, India and Bangladesh — alsoincluded three women and two children who had been taken to hospital fortreatment, the coalition said.
