Oman floods kill 16 including schoolchildren

Muscat (AFP) April 15, 2024

Flooding in Oman has killed at least 16 people, many of them schoolchildren, authorities said following the discovery of the bodies of a child and three adults on Monday. The Gulf sultanate's official news agency initially reported on Sunday that nine schoolchildren and three other adults had "lost their lives after their vehicles got swept away in gushing wadi waters". Five individuals