1 killed as heavy rain floods parts of Oman

Muscat: The Public Authority of Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) on Saturday recovered the body of an Indian expatriate worker who went missing on Friday night after heavy rains lashed northern suburbs of Muscat.

According to sources, two workers working on a pipe-laying site in Al Khodh area north of Muscat were washed away in a flash flood following Friday night’s rains.

“One of them caught a tree branch and was saved by a passersby but the deceased was pulled by strong wadi currents,” an eyewitness said.

The PACDA rescue teams launched search operations and found the body on Saturday, according to a posting on PACDA’s Facebook page.

Although the forecast was for heavy rains and storm, Saturday saw relatively lighter rains and Sunday morning was bright and sunny.

The Batinah region in the north of the country suffered the most, with rain water flooding houses in some areas.