Saudi civil defence puts out fires at fuel storage tanks hit by Houthis

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s civil defence has extinguished fires at two gasoline storage tanks within the Pink Sea port metropolis of Jeddah that have been hit in an assault by Yemen’s Houthis, state tv reported on Saturday.

The Iran-aligned Houthis have escalated missile and drone strikes on the dominion’s oil amenities in latest weeks forward of a short lived truce for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins early in April.

Friday’s assault on oil large Aramco’s petroleum merchandise distribution station in Jeddah, which the Houthis stated that they had carried out, got here as Jeddah ready to host the Components One Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday.

The Saudi-led coalition confirmed the assault and the following blaze, which didn’t trigger any casualties.

(Reporting by Ahmed Tolba; Writing by Yasmin Hussein; Modifying by Alexander Smith and Helen Popper)