(UTV|COLOMBO) – Drone attacks have set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia, state media say.
Footage showed flames and huge palls of smoke over Abqaiq, site of Aramco’s largest oil processing plant.
A second drone attack also started fires in the Khurais oilfield to the west. The fires are now under control at both facilities, state media said.
Iran-aligned Houthi fighters in Yemen have been blamed for previous attacks.
However, the Saudi media reports did not say who could be behind the latest attacks.
The industrial security teams of Aramco started dealing with fires at two of its facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais as a result of… drones,” the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
“The two fires have been controlled. (Foreign Media Reports)
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