Yemen rebels officially claim oil plant attack as huge fire erupts in Jeddah

Smoke billows from an oil storage facility in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah after airstrikes by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, March 25, 2022. (Andrej Isakovic/AFP)
Smoke billows from an oil storage facility in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah after airstrikes by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, March 25, 2022. (Andrej Isakovic/AFP)

Yemeni rebels say they attacked a Saudi Aramco oil facility in Jeddah as part of a wave of drone and missile assaults on Friday as a huge cloud of smoke was seen near the Formula One venue in the city.

“We did several attacks with drones and ballistic missiles,” the Iran-backed Huthi rebels say in a statement, including an “Aramco installation in Jeddah (and) vital installations in Riyadh.”

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