Muscat: A seven-year-old child was crushed under a school bus in Qabil, according to a Royal Oman Police (ROP) press release on Tuesday.

The bus driver dropped some students near their homes and did not notice the boy as he drove the vehicle on reverse. The child died on the spot.

An Egyptian pedestrian was killed when he was knocked down by a speeding car in Suwaiq as he tried to cross the road.