At least 21 people had been killed in heavy rains in recent days in Oman, a sultanate neighbouring UAE. According to a statement Tuesday from the country’s National Committee for Emergency Management, 10 school children swept away in a school bus with an adult.
Civil defense officials gave the death toll for the rains, which saw Oman’s North Al Sharqiyah province hardest hit. The Royal Oman Police and the Omani military deployed to the province to transport citizens out of flooded areas, the state-run Oman News Agency reported.
