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Reportedly, our bodies of a girl and baby had additionally been recovered on Monday.(Consultant File Picture: PTI)
On Monday, the Ministry of Training shuttered colleges in most areas as a precaution towards the flooding which additionally resulted within the closure of 5 roads
Flooding in Oman has killed at the least 14 folks, most of the schoolchildren, authorities mentioned following the invention of the our bodies of a girl and baby on Monday.
The Gulf sultanate’s official information company initially reported on Sunday 9 schoolchildren and three adults had “misplaced their lives after their automobiles acquired swept away in gushing wadi waters”.
5 others people had been reported lacking within the floods that struck the northeast of the nation.
The Oman Information Company reported on Monday the our bodies of a girl and baby had additionally been recovered.
Violent thunderstorms, heavy rain and robust winds starting on Sunday have battered the nation, inflicting flash floods in a number of areas within the north and east of Oman.
The sultanate’s Council of Ministers mentioned in an announcement it was “crammed with grief” and “extends its honest condolences and sympathies to the households and kinfolk of college college students who not too long ago died within the Governorate of A’Sharqiyah”.
On Monday, the Ministry of Training shuttered colleges in most areas as a precaution towards the flooding which additionally resulted within the closure of 5 roads.
Dozens left stranded had been rescued in operations aided by helicopters from Oman’s air pressure.
Storms had been anticipated to have an effect on different Gulf states, together with Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, later within the day.
Flooding had already claimed the lives of three youngsters throughout downpours in Oman in February.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
