King Fahd International Airport in Dammam was targeted in an attack on Wednesday evening that killed one resident and injured eight other people, Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said.

According to a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA), the injuries ranged from minor to critical. All of the injured were taken to the hospital immediately for treatment, it said. The attack also caused property damage, the extent of which is being assessed, and the authority said it would provide further updates.

The SPA report did not say who carried out the attack, what kind of weapon was used, or whether flights at the airport have been affected. It did not provide the nationality of the person who was killed.

Al Jazeera described the Dammam attack as the latest in a series of assaults on Saudi airports as fighting intensifies between Houthi forces and the Saudi-backed, internationally recognised Yemeni government.

The broadcaster reported that the kingdom said a projectile strike on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport on Oct 11 killed one person and injured 11. On Oct 10, the civil aviation authority reported a separate attack on the same airport that killed 12 people and injured more than 300, according to Al Jazeera.

Al Jazeera also reported that the US State Department on Wednesday ordered diplomats and their family members to leave its missions in Saudi Arabia amid the Houthi attacks. US officials told Reuters there are also plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US missions in the region, it said. The US embassy in Riyadh issued a security alert on Wednesday about possible further Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, according to the report.

Sources: Saudi Press Agency (GACA statement); Al Jazeera