A fire at a facility belonging to Saudi Arabia's state oil giant Aramco in the coastal city of Jizan was extinguished early Sunday, authorities said. No casualties were reported.

The Saudi Ministry of Energy said the fire broke out at the site and that authorities were completing the necessary procedures to deal with the incident. The ministry did not say what caused the blaze.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi armed group claimed responsibility for an attack on the facility, which is located near Saudi Arabia's border with Yemen on the Red Sea.

Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said on X that the group "succeeded in targeting the Aramco refinery in Jizan with a drone, and the strike was precise".

He said the attack was carried out in response to Saudi Arabia's "breach of the airspace of the provinces of Saada and Hajjah" with drones.

There was no immediate comment from Riyadh on the claim.

The Houthis also claimed attacks on Aramco facilities in Jizan last month, as well as strikes targeting oil installations in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia's main west coast export gateway.

Aramco chief Amin Nasser said last week that recent attacks on the company's facilities had caused some production interruptions but that operations could be restored quickly. He said the attacks had no material operational or financial impact.

The latest incident comes amid growing strains on a 2022 truce in the war between the Houthis and Yemen's internationally recognized government, which is backed by Saudi Arabia.

The Houthis seized control of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, in 2014 and last month declared a blockade on Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, threatening shipping through the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.

Saudi authorities have also blamed Iran-aligned armed groups in Iraq for attacks on its oil facilities.

On Friday, Riyadh signed a defense pact with Turkey and Pakistan amid rising regional tensions linked to the US-Israel war on Iran.