Egypt ambassador to Saudi Arabia visits 3 injured in Houthi attack

Egypt's ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Monday (March 26th) visited a hospital in Riyadh to check on three Egyptians who were injured after a number of ballistic missiles were fired at Riyadh by the Iran-backed Houthis (Ansarallah), Egypt's Ahram Online reported.

On Sunday, Saudi air defence forces shot down seven ballistic missiles fired at Riyadh, as well as other southern cities of Saudi Arabia.

An Egyptian citizen was killed in Riyadh by falling shrapnel and three other Egyptians were wounded.

Ambassador Nasser Hamdy was accompanied to Shomiasy hospital by a number of Egyptian officials in Riyadh, including the consul and the defence attaché, a foreign ministry statement said.

Egyptian authorities are paying to transfer the body of Abdel Motaleb Ahmed Hussein, the man who was killed, to Egypt, the ministry added.

The three men injured, Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, Shehab Mahmoud Hussein and Tareq Abo Taleb Mohamed, are stable and one will be released from hospital soon, the statement said.

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