Saudi Arabia: Fire breaks out at Jeddah oil depot ahead of F1 race weekend
A fire erupted at an oil depot in the Saudi city of Jeddah on Friday, ahead of the F1 Grand Prix race scheduled to take place there - with Yemen's Houthis rebels acknowledging that they had launched a series of attacks on the kingdom. Saudi Arabia and the state-run oil giant Saudi Aramco did not immediately acknowledge the blaze, though it appeared to be on the same fuel depot that the Houthis attacked in recent days. The fire seems to be centred on the same North Jeddah Bulk Plant, the Associated Press news agency reported. The North Jeddah Bulk Plant stores diesel, gasoline and jet fuel for use in Jeddah, the kingdom's second-largest city. It accounts for over a quarter of all of Saudi Arabia's supplies and is crucial to running a regional desalination plant. The purported attack comes as Saudi Arabia continues to lead a coalition fighting Yemen's Houthi rebels who seized the Yemeni capital Sanaa in 2014, sparking a civil war that forced President Abd-Rabbu Mansour H...