Emiratis help Omanis find body of honey collector

Ras Al Khaimah: An Omani helicopter yesterday recovered the body of an Omani who was found dead in a mountainous area between Bakha and Andah in Oman near the remote area of Shaam in Ras Al Khaimah with the help of Emiratis.

Sources in Shaam said the 25-year-old Omani lives with his family in Shaam and used to collect honey.

The family of the victim requested their Emirati neighbours in Shaam to help find him after the victim failed to show up at his home for a day.

His Emirati neighbours spread out in the mountainous area to determine the whereabouts of the victim. The mission lasted several hours.

Local guides

The Emirati search team finally found the body of the Omani who is thought to have fallen from a mountain.

The body was full of injuries and fractures. The sources said that the body was covered in blood.

The search team reported the case to the Omani authorities who dispatched a helicopter to recover the body.

The Emiratis guided the helicopter to the location of the body.

The sources stressed that the victim should not have climbed the mountains hunting honey especially after the frequent and urgent calls by both the UAE and Omani authorities to avoid the mountainous areas.

The sources said that unless it was urgent they would never have climbed the mountains in search for the Omani national.