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Yemen rebels fire missile at Saudi oil tanks

24 November 2020
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2020-11-24 15:02

Yemen's Houthi rebels say they struck a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jiddah with a new cruise missile, just hours after the kingdom finished hosting its virtual G20 summit. The kingdom acknowledged the attack on the Saudi Arabian Oil Co. facility in Jiddah on Monday.

A projectile struck a fuel tank at the Jiddah distribution station and ignited a fire around 3:50 a.m., an unnamed Energy Ministry official said. That facility is just southeast of Jiddah's King Abdulaziz International Airport, a major airfield that handles incoming Muslim pilgrims en route to nearby Mecca.

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