Salalah: Fire on board a ship anchored at Salalah Port in the Dhofar Governorate was doused by a fire fighting team at the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance.
No injury or loss of life was reported in the incident.
The operations department at the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance received a call about the fire on a commercial ship.
The ship with a crew of 25 of different nationalities was carrying fuel derivates estimated at 400 tonnes and 6,000 tonnes of cement.
The fire fighting team at the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance was able to put out the fire in almost five hours.