Three people were killed and ten injured in attacks on Dammam airport and the Shaybah oilfield, with a Pakistani national among the wounded.
The two incidents: Dammam airport and Shaybah
At King Fahd International Airport in Dammam, struck on Wednesday evening: one killed, eight injured.
At the Shaybah oilfield processing facility in the Eastern Province: two killed, two injured. The Pakistani national was among those hurt here.
The General Authority of Civil Aviation confirmed the airport attack; the energy ministry announced the Aramco incident. Coalition spokesman Maj Gen Turki Al-Maliki said forces intercepted and destroyed four drones, and separately that eleven Houthi drones and a ballistic missile were intercepted.
The pattern of who gets hurt
Earlier reporting on the Shaybah strike identified the two killed as a Filipino and a Nepali national. Saturday’s Riyadh airport attack killed people from eight countries, only four of them Saudi.
Gulf energy and aviation infrastructure runs substantially on expatriate labour, much of it South Asian. The casualty lists from this campaign are consistently more foreign than Saudi.
Pakistan has millions of citizens working in the Gulf, and their remittances — $10.88 billion in the last quarter — are among the few reliably growing items in the national accounts.
No Pakistani response
No statement from the Pakistani government on the injured national is recorded in the reporting. The energy ministry expressed condolences to the families of the dead.
This newspaper reported on 11 October that a Pakistani national was killed in a separate strike on Riyadh airport.
The corridor this sits on
Dammam airport and the Shaybah field are both in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, the stretch of coast facing the Gulf through which most of the region’s crude and refined product moves.
Pakistan imports most of its petroleum through that corridor. Disruption there reaches Pakistani households as a fuel price before it reaches them as news.
[Image: Reuters via The Express Tribune.]
Sources: ARY News, The Express Tribune.
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