Search continues for persons missing in valley

Muscat: The rescue team of the Royal Oman Police,(ROP), is continuing to search for two expatriates who went missing in a flooded valley in the Wilayat of Ibra.

ROP said in a statement: “A report on the stranding of two Asians inside a truck after it drifted in the Masroun Valley in the Wilayat of Ibra due to the heavy flow of water in the valley. Rescue teams are following up on it.”

Earlier in the day police aviation carried out a medical evacuation for two people to the Rustaq Reference Hospital, one of whom was involved in a traffic accident and could not be transported by land due to flooding of valleys.