Muscat: Six people were killed in road accidents during the second week of this month, the Royal Oman Police have reported.
In May, however, 66 people were killed and 976 injured, the police said.
According to a spokesperson of the ROP, at least 165 road accidents were reported in a week from June 5-11 in which 22 pedestrians were run over.
Eighteen residents were killed in May in the Batinah region while 15 deaths were recorded in Muscat.
Three occupants of a car were killed in Birka, north off Muscat, when the vehicle collided with another at high speed.
Meanwhile, the rise in temperature has triggered 61 fires in the country keeping the Civil Defence officials on their toes.
"It is advisable for residents not to leave dry leaves and plants out in the open but dispose off properly as they cause most fires," the ROP spokesperson said.
He also urged people to take care while burning waste as cases of winds spreading these fires have been reported.
The Civil Defence, the ROP spokesman said, also handled 50 cases of drowning in the first ten days of June.
These included a 60-year-old man who drowned in a falaj in Ibri and an 18-year-old woman who fell in a pond in Misfat village as she was tending after a herd of goats.
