All passengers aboard a helicopter operated by Saudi Arabia's state oil company Aramco were reported dead after it crashed.
According to Saudi state-run SPA on the 28th (local time), the Ministry of Energy said that at about 6 a.m. that day, an Aramco helicopter crashed in Ras Tanura, an eastern coastal city of Saudi Arabia, killing all 14 people aboard the aircraft. All passengers were reported to be Saudi nationals.
Ras Tanura, where the accident occurred, is home to Saudi Arabia's largest refinery and export terminal on the Persian Gulf. It is a region where oil fields and refineries were destroyed after the Iran War began and Iran carried out missile and drone attacks.
Because of this, Aramco had been sending crude from the eastern region to the Red Sea coast via an inland pipeline to continue exports. It then resumed crude exports via the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz from Ras Tanura port on the 26th after about four months.