Yemen’s Houthi group said Sunday it carried out a drone attack on a Saudi Aramco refinery in the Saudi city of Jazan, as tensions between the two sides continued to escalate.
A statement from the Iran-backed group’s armed wing says it targeted the facility with a drone.
The Saudi Energy Ministry said earlier that firefighting teams had extinguished a fire that broke out at the Jazan refinery around dawn. No injuries were reported.
Aramco’s industrial security teams had brought the fire under control, and the relevant authorities were completing procedures to deal with the incident, the ministry said on X. It did not say what caused the fire.
Jazan is on the Red Sea near the border with Yemen.
The Jazan refinery processes 400,000 barrels of crude oil per day and produces refined products including gasoline and ultra-light sulfur diesel.
