Explosions were heard in the Saudi capital on Tuesday, while the military coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen announced that it had intercepted a ballistic missile launched by the Iranian-backed group towards Riyadh. Agence France-Presse journalists heard explosions and residents received a text message alert on their phones directing them to take cover due to an “air threat,” followed by another message from the country’s Civil Defense Authority stating that the danger had passed. The Saudi-led coalition reported on the X platform that “the air defense intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile launched by the terrorist Houthi militia towards Riyadh.” The coalition had previously stated that the air defenses also destroyed a ballistic missile that was heading towards the southern region during the night. The Houthis announced on Sunday that they had targeted the King Abdullah Financial Center in Riyadh, where witnesses confirmed to Agence France-Presse that an Aramco oil company skyscraper had been hit. The Ministry of Energy announced that an Aramco building in the area was hit by shrapnel as a result of a "targeting attempt." The Saudi News Agency reported on Tuesday that Prince Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Governor of the Riyadh Region, inspected “one of the civil administrative buildings belonging to Saudi Aramco in the city of Riyadh to determine the limited damage resulting from the sinful attack of the terrorist Houthi militia on civilian objects.”