Two Bangladeshi nationals were killed in an attack by Houthi rebels at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. Four other Bangladeshis injured in the attack are receiving treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU) of King Khalid Hospital in Riyadh.

State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shama Obaed Islam disclosed the information while responding to journalists at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Sunday afternoon.

The state minister said a Bangladeshi national had also been killed in an earlier Houthi attack. “Now the death toll has risen to two. We hope this disaster and these attacks will come to an end. It’s extremely difficult to accept such deaths,” she said.

In a statement on Saturday’s attack in Riyadh, the foreign ministry said a missile struck Terminal 3 of King Khalid International Airport at around 3:20 pm on Saturday. Passengers from Bangladesh and several other countries were waiting at the terminal at the time.

Two Bangladeshi nationals were killed in the incident. They were Md Shahed Ahmed, from Madla village in Shajahanpur upazila of Bogura, and Md Nasrullah Badarpuri, from Badarpur village in Nangalkot upazila of Cumilla.