{"id":55725,"date":"2026-03-23T10:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55725"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:36:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:36:41","slug":"five-killed-in-oman-after-vehicles-swept-away-by-floodwaters-civil-defence-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=55725","title":{"rendered":"Five killed in Oman after vehicles swept away by floodwaters, civil defence says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DUBAI, March 23  &#8211; At least five \u200bpeople have died in Oman \u200cover the past 24 hours after vehicles were swept away by floodwaters, \u200bauthorities said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oman&#8217;s \u200bCivil Defence and Ambulance Authority said \u2060seven people were rescued after \u200ba vehicle carrying 10 people \u200bwas swept away in a wadi in the Wilayat of Barka, while the \u200bother three were later found \u200bdead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a separate incident, two citizens died \u200cafter \u2060their vehicle was carried away by floodwaters in a wadi in the Wilayat of Al-Maawil, with \u200btheir bodies \u200blater recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities \u2060said the deaths came as heavy rains affected \u200bparts of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oman \u200bhas \u2060experienced deadly flooding in recent years, including in April 2024 when \u2060flash \u200bfloods killed at least \u200b20 people and inundated large areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) DUBAI, March 23 &#8211; At least five \u200bpeople have died in Oman \u200cover the past 24 hours after vehicles were swept away by floodwaters, \u200bauthorities said on Monday. Oman&#8217;s \u200bCivil Defence and Ambulance Authority said \u2060seven people were rescued after \u200ba vehicle carrying 10 people \u200bwas swept away in a wadi in the Wilayat of Barka, while the \u200bother three were later found \u200bdead. In a separate incident, two citizens died \u200cafter \u2060their vehicle was carried away by floodwaters in a wadi in the Wilayat of Al-Maawil, with \u200btheir bodies \u200blater recovered. Authorities \u2060said the deaths came as heavy&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55727,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55725\/revisions\/55727"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}