Oman Weather: Twelve deaths recorded across Sultanate

Muscat: On a day when heavy rains lashed most parts of Oman, a total of 12 deaths were recorded across various areas. The latest update stated that three missing students were found dead in the Samad Al-Shan in north Al Sharqiyah. A search is still ongoing for five missing people.

According to the National Committee for Emergency Management: “Nine deaths have been recorded in vehicles drifting in flood waters. Out of these nine, 6 were school students, 2 were citizens, and one person was an expatriate. The search continues for 8 other people, 4 of whom are school children from the wilayat of Al Mudhaibi.”

Royal Oman Police said: “The North Al Sharqiyah Governorate Police Command transported a number of students via four-wheel drive vehicles to their homes after sheltering them in the command building due to the breakdown of the bus that was transporting them and the rise in water levels in the valley stream that crosses the road leading to their residential area in the state of Ibra.”

Police aviation carried out eight sorties over the past hours for more than 35 people, including tasks of rescuing people, transporting the injured, treating patients, and searching for missing persons. Vehicles of the field teams of the Royal Oman Police, the Royal Army of Oman, the Civil Defence Authority and the Ambulance, in addition to the vehicles of some citizens, transported students from Al Rawdha School to a safe place, and they are all in good health.

In addition, rescue teams from the Department of Civil Defense and Ambulance in ⁧North Al Sharqiyah‬⁩ Governorate, in cooperation with the relevant authorities, carried out evacuation and transfer operations for more than 2000 students from schools in ⁧‫Al  Mudhibi‬⁩ Governorate after the rise of rainwater, and all of them are in good health.

Rescue teams from the Department of Civil Defense and Ambulance in ⁧‫Muscat‬⁩ Governorate carried out evacuations of 10 students from a school in the state of Muscat and transported them to their homes, and they are in good health.

In addition, the Civil Defense and Ambulance Authority received a report about the breakdown of a school bus with 21 students in the wilayat of Nizw‬⁩a, where teams from the Department of Civil Defense and Ambulance in the governorate of ⁧Al Dakhiliyah were able to get them out and all of them are in good health