Egypt's ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Nasser Hamdy, visited the Shomiasy hospital in the city to check on the state of three Egyptians who were injured after a number of ballistic missiles were fired at Riyadh by Houthis in Yemen on Sunday.

On Sunday Saudi air defence forces shot down seven ballistic missiles fired at the capital of Riyadh, as well as other southern cities of Saudi Arabia; however, the debris of the missiles killed an Egyptian national and injured three others, two of whom are his relatives.

The ambassador was accompanied by a number of Egyptian officials in Riyadh, including the consul and the defence attaché, a foreign ministry statement added.

Egyptian authorities are paying to transfer the body of Abdel Motaleb Ahmed Hussein, the man who was killed, to Egypt, the ministry added.

The three men injured, Mohamed Ahmed Hussein, Shehab Mahmoud Hussein and Tareq Abo Taleb Mohamed, are stable and one will be released from hospital soon, the statement said.

Hussein is the first person to be killed on Saudi soil by military action since the Saudi-led coalition started their military operations in Yemen in 2015, Reuters reported.

The Saudi military says the Houthi militants have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi Arabia since last year, all of which were intercepted.

Ten thousand people have been killed during the war in Yemen, two million people have been displaced, and one million people have had cholera, Reuters reported.