Riyadh, Sep 14 (TIWN) Drone attacks set alight two major oil facilities run by the state-owned company Aramco in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, the state media reported.

Footage showed flames and huge palls of smoke over Abqaiq, site of Aramco's largest oil processing plant.  A second drone attack also started fires in the Khurais oilfield to the west. The fires are now under control at both facilities, state media said.  Iran-aligned Houthi fighters in Yemen have been blamed for previous attacks.  However, the Saudi media reports did not say who could be behind the latest attacks.  "At 04:00 (0100 GMT), the industrial security teams of Aramco started dealing with fires at two of its facilities in Abqaiq and Khurais as a result of... drones," the official Saudi Press Agency reported.