Middle East / Saudi Arabia · Conflict & Security

Missile attack on Riyadh airport kills 13, including Indian national from Hyderabad

Rank: 73
Running: 9h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 9
Regions: 4
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

Gulf News United Arab Emirates · English 11 Oct, 16:14 UTC

The earliest of 7 English reports

Read it also in Azərbaycan (1) · +1 language

Read at Gulf News

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Gulf News, 11 Oct, 16:14 UTC.
Second country: India, with Hindustan Times.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Hindustan Times.
Fastest hour: +5 outlets from 11 Oct, 16:14 UTC.
Now: 9 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

56%22%

Americas 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Asia-Pacific 5 outlets · 1 country · 56%
Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 11%
Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 22%

First movers

Gulf News 11 Oct, 16:14 UTC
Hindustan Times +22m
The Indian Express +50m
Anadolu Agency +56m
The Hindu +56m

Latest arrivals

Times of India 11 Oct, 23:55 UTC
Metrópoles 11 Oct, 21:14 UTC
APA.az 11 Oct, 19:08 UTC
NDTV 11 Oct, 17:42 UTC
The Hindu 11 Oct, 17:10 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 9 outlets in 5 countries, across 4 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 9 outlets, 1 state-owned, 8 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 1: Brazil. Asia-Pacific 1: India. Europe 1: Azerbaijan. Middle East 2: Turkey, United Arab Emirates. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages: Azerbaijani, English, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article Gulf News, 11 Oct 2026, 16:14 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 16:40 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 23:55 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification: Region Middle East, Saudi Arabia. Topic Conflict & Security. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score: 2.15, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day: Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method

11 Oct 2026 128 5.02 8 5 8 5 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 11 Oct, 16:40 UTC · Updated 23:55 UTC

Covered by 9 outlets

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Times of India India 11 Oct, 23:55 UTC
Hyderabad man among 13 killed in Houthi strike on Saudi airport
Metrópoles Brazil 11 Oct, 21:14 UTC
Sobe para 13 o número de mortos em ataque a aeroporto da Arábia Saudita
The Hindu India 11 Oct, 19:57 UTC
Hyderabad man killed in Riyadh airport attack, two sons injured
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- Indian died day after being injured in Riyadh airport attack 11 Oct, 17:10 UTC
APA.az Azerbaijan 11 Oct, 19:08 UTC
Ər-Riyad hava limanına hücum zamanı Hindistan vətəndaşı ölüb - YENİLƏNİB
Gulf News United Arab Emirates 11 Oct, 18:38 UTC
Indian man from Hyderabad dies after Riyadh airport attack; 3 family members injured
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- Indian national injured in Riyadh airport attack dies, Embassy confirms 11 Oct, 16:14 UTC
NDTV India 11 Oct, 17:42 UTC
Indian Man Killed In Missile Strike On Saudi Airport, 2 Sons In Hospital
Anadolu Agency Turkey 11 Oct, 17:10 UTC
Death toll from Riyadh airport attack rises to 13 as Indian national succumbs to injuries
The Indian Express India 11 Oct, 17:04 UTC
Indian killed in attack on Riyadh airport was there for Umrah with family
Hindustan Times India 11 Oct, 16:35 UTC
‘Deeply grieved’: Jaishankar assures all assistance to family of Indian killed in Riyadh attack