Twenty-one people were wounded and a Syrian national was killed in drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport, Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya TV says.

It called it an attack by terrorists.

Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV said a suspected drone hit the parking lot in Abha airport, about 200 kilometres north of the Yemen border on Sunday. Flights had since resumed at the airport and operations were now running normally. It did not confirm an attack on Jizan airport.

Yemen's Houthi rebel movement said they had targeted Abha and Jizan airports in southern Saudi Arabia with drones, the group's Al-Masirah TV said.

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