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The United Kingdom has warned its nationals against travelling to Saudi Arabia, citing a sharply deteriorating security environment driven by intensifying Houthi attacks on the kingdom's airports, military installations, and energy infrastructure.
The advisory, published by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) and the British Embassy in Riyadh, stops short of advising against all travel but recommends against all but essential trips to Saudi Arabia and against any travel within 10 kilometres of the border with Yemen.
The FCDO noted that Saudi air defences had intercepted missiles fired towards Riyadh and destroyed a drone in the Eastern Province and that debris from two intercepted ballistic missiles had fallen on a village in the Makkah Region.
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It recommended that British nationals wishing to leave the kingdom consider travelling overland to a neighbouring country and departing from airports there, rather than flying directly out of Saudi Arabia.
The embassy urged residents to shelter indoors during any attack, using interior stairwells and rooms with as few external walls and…
