The Yemeni Houthi group said - on Friday - that it bombed a facility belonging to the Saudi Aramco oil company in Riyadh in an attack with 6 armed drones, and Riyadh condemned the attack and said that it did not leave any victims.
"Our armed forces carried out an operation at dawn today with 6 drones targeting Aramco, and they hit their targets with high accuracy," said the group’s military spokesman, Brigadier General Yahya Saree.
He did not give details of the targets that he said had been struck.
He added that the operations against Saudi Arabia will continue and escalate as long as the Saudi attacks on Yemen continue, as he put it.
The Houthis have intensified attacks on Saudi Arabia - the world's largest oil exporter - in recent weeks.
The statement considered that "the military and vital targets in Saudi Arabia have become legitimate targets, and targeting may affect them at any moment."
Saudi position
The Saudi Press Agency quoted an official source in the Ministry of Energy as saying that an oil refinery in Riyadh was "attacked by drones, and the attack resulted in a controlled fire." The supplies of petroleum and its derivatives are affected. "
The source said that the Kingdom "strongly condemns this cowardly attack, and affirms that the terrorist and sabotage acts that are repeatedly committed against vital installations and civilian objects, the last of which was the attempt to target the Ras Tanura refinery and the Saudi Aramco residential neighborhood in Dhahran, not targeting the Kingdom alone, but rather targeting, in a manner." Wider, security and stability of energy supplies in the world, and the global economy as well. "
The Saudi official called on the world and its organizations "to stand against these terrorist and sabotage attacks, and to confront all parties that carry them out or support them."
On the seventh of March, the Saudi-Emirati coalition said that it had intercepted a barrage of missiles and drones that were on their way to hit targets, including an oil storage facility in Ras Tanura which houses a refinery and the largest facility for loading crude in the world, and a residential complex in The Dhahran region is used by Aramco.
In the past weeks, the Houthis have intensified the launching of ballistic missiles, projectiles and marches on Saudi regions, amid repeated declarations by the coalition to destroy these missiles and aircraft, and accusing the group that it is supported by those weapons from Iran.
The Houthi group says that these attacks are a response to the ongoing coalition raids against it in separate areas of Yemen.