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 "generated": "2026-10-12T20:24:27+00:00",
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  "attribution": "DroneLedger (droneincidents.com)",
  "excludes": "Quoted source passages and linked articles remain the copyright of their publishers; they are included as short quotations for verification. Fonts (SIL OFL) and map data (Natural Earth, public domain) keep their own terms. City and region names in automatically published dossiers are checked against GeoNames (geonames.org, CC BY 4.0). Drone drawings and animations are schematic illustrations of a type, not evidence about any incident."
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 "evidenceNote": "Each dossier separates three claims: drone presence, impact and attribution, each with its own evidence state and supporting sources. 'reported' means a source describes the claim without sufficient identification evidence; claims by parties to a conflict are never 'confirmed' on their own. Counts reflect dossiers in this curated archive, not all incidents worldwide.",
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  "id": "riyadh-airport-2026-10-07",
  "title": "Riyadh airport attacked; Houthis say they used ballistic missiles and drones",
  "place": "King Khalid International Airport, Riyadh",
  "country": "Saudi Arabia",
  "countryCode": "SA",
  "date": "2026-10-07",
  "dateKind": "statement",
  "scope": "single",
  "category": "conflict",
  "droneStatus": "reported",
  "impactStatus": "confirmed",
  "attributionStatus": "claimed",
  "lat": 24.958,
  "lon": 46.699,
  "locationPrecision": "point",
  "summary": "Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority (GACA) said one person was killed and eight wounded in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh on 6 or 7 October. The Houthi military spokesperson said the group attacked Saudi airports with ballistic missiles and drones.",
  "impact": "GACA reported one person killed, a resident of Sudanese nationality, and eight wounded at King Khalid International Airport.",
  "evidence": "The casualty figures come from a statement by the Saudi civil aviation authority, GACA, as reported by the BBC. 'Impact confirmed' refers to those officially reported casualties at the airport; it does not establish that drones caused them. The use of drones rests on a statement by the Houthi military spokesperson, a party to the conflict, who named ballistic missiles and drones. The deadlier strikes on the same airport on 8 and 10 October were attributed to ballistic missiles and are not covered by this dossier.",
  "unknown": "Which weapon struck the airport and how many drones (if any) were involved are not established in the cited source.",
  "attribution": "The Houthis claimed responsibility. GACA did not name who was responsible.",
  "sources": [
   {
    "label": "BBC News: Three people killed in Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia airports, officials say (reports GACA's statement and the Houthi spokesperson's claim)",
    "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwn8d5rx22rdo",
    "published": "2026-10-07",
    "family": "gaca-and-houthi-statements"
   }
  ],
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   {
    "date": "2026-10-07",
    "text": "GACA reported one killed and eight wounded at King Khalid International Airport in attacks on 6 and 7 October; the Houthi spokesperson claimed attacks with ballistic missiles and drones.",
    "source": 0
   }
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   0
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  "impactStatusSources": [
   0
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  "attributionSources": [
   0
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   {
    "id": "impact-gaca",
    "axis": "impact",
    "statement": "GACA said one person was killed and eight were wounded in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh.",
    "quote": "one person was killed and eight were wounded in an attack on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh",
    "claimant": "General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA)",
    "originId": "gaca-2026-10-07",
    "relay": "relayed",
    "assessment": "supports",
    "note": "Statement by the competent authority, reported by the BBC; the basis for 'impact confirmed'. It does not say what caused the casualties.",
    "sourceIndex": 0,
    "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-12"
   },
   {
    "id": "drone-houthi",
    "axis": "drone",
    "statement": "The Houthi military spokesperson said the group attacked both Saudi airports with ballistic missiles and drones.",
    "quote": "said its armed forces had attacked both Saudi Arabia airports with ballistic missiles and drones",
    "claimant": "Yahya Saree, Houthi military spokesperson",
    "originId": "houthi-saree-2026-10-07",
    "relay": "relayed",
    "assessment": "supports",
    "note": "Claim by a party to the conflict; the basis for 'drone reported' and 'attribution claimed'.",
    "sourceIndex": 0,
    "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-12"
   },
   {
    "id": "attribution-gaca",
    "axis": "attribution",
    "statement": "GACA did not name who was responsible.",
    "quote": "did not name who was responsible for the attacks",
    "claimant": "General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA)",
    "originId": "gaca-2026-10-07",
    "relay": "relayed",
    "assessment": "context",
    "note": "The only attribution is the Houthis' own claim.",
    "sourceIndex": 0,
    "quoteCheckedAt": "2026-10-12"
   }
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  "checkedAt": "2026-10-12",
  "autoCheckedAt": null,
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-12",
  "revision": 4,
  "corroboration": null,
  "labels": {
   "category": "Armed conflict strike",
   "droneStatus": "Reported",
   "impactStatus": "Confirmed",
   "attributionStatus": "Claimed by a party (not independently verified)"
  },
  "url": "https://droneincidents.com/incident/riyadh-airport-2026-10-07/",
  "citation": "DroneLedger, “Riyadh airport attacked; Houthis say they used ballistic missiles and drones”, dossier riyadh-airport-2026-10-07, revision 4, updated 2026-10-12. https://droneincidents.com/incident/riyadh-airport-2026-10-07/",
  "history": [
   {
    "revision": 4,
    "date": "2026-10-12",
    "at": "2026-10-12T18:27:30.698+00:00",
    "note": "Added claim-level evidence: each key claim with its source passage, original source and assessment; passages checked word for word against the sources."
   },
   {
    "revision": 3,
    "date": "2026-10-12",
    "at": "2026-10-12T16:20:31.656+00:00",
    "note": "Source family corrected: the BBC article relays both GACA's statement and the Houthi spokesperson's claim. Clarified that 'impact confirmed' refers to the casualties officially reported by GACA, not to what caused them."
   },
   {
    "revision": 2,
    "date": "2026-10-12",
    "at": "2026-10-12T15:47:10.869+00:00",
    "note": "Added drone types and numbers as named by the cited sources, and background on documented drone types of the attributed party."
   },
   {
    "revision": 1,
    "date": "2026-10-12",
    "at": "2026-10-12T14:44:11.772+00:00",
    "note": "Curated dossier created after checking the cited sources line by line."
   }
  ]
 }
}