Yemen's Houthi movement, Ansar Allah, said on Sunday it had targeted the King Abdullah Financial District in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, after the Saudi energy ministry said an Aramco office building in the city had been hit by shrapnel.

In a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency, the ministry said one of the oil giant's administrative buildings had been the subject of an "attempted attack" that caused limited damage, with no injuries or deaths.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group had carried out four operations using ballistic and cruise missiles and drones. One of them, he said, targeted King Khalid International Airport, Aramco storage tanks and the financial centre in Riyadh.

The Saudi-led coalition said its air defences had intercepted and destroyed three ballistic missiles and a cruise missile fired towards Riyadh and the Eastern and Southern regions. Coalition spokesman Major General Turki al-Maliki later announced the interception of two further cruise missiles over the Riyadh and Southern regions.

Loud explosions were heard across the capital after civil defence authorities issued an early warning of a "hostile aerial threat". Several witnesses told AFP the financial district had been hit, and two of them confirmed damage to the glass-fronted building.

Civil defence officials later lifted alerts for Dammam, Dhahran, Abqaiq and al-Ahsa in the oil-rich Eastern Province after a ballistic missile aimed at the region was intercepted. On Saturday, the coalition said it had downed a cruise missile launched towards the Riyadh region.