“The oil refinery in Riyadh was attacked by a drone, causing a light fire which was extinguished”
An oil refinery in Riyadh suffered a drone attack that caused no casualties or disruption of its operations, a Saudi ministry said on Friday, according to the official news agency. SPA.
This attack comes as the Russian military intervention in Ukraine, launched on February 24, is causing concern in world markets. The prices of gas and oil, of which Russia is a major supplier, have soared.
This act of “sabotage and terrorism” according to the SPA follows a series of similar attacks on Saudi infrastructure by Houthi rebels in Yemen, where a Riyadh-led military coalition is fighting them.
“The oil refinery in Riyadh was attacked by a drone, causing a light fire which was extinguished,” the energy ministry said, quoted by the agency, without attributing responsibility for the attack to the Yemeni rebels. .
The attack, which took place on Thursday morning, “caused no casualties, and the transport of oil or its derivatives was not affected”, according to the same source.
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