Twelve people were killed, and others went missing, as a result of heavy rains and floods in areas in the Sultanate of Oman.

The Oman News Agency reported that the Search and Rescue Sector of the National Emergency Management System in the Sultanate recorded the death of 12 people as a result of their vehicles being swept away, including two Omani citizens and 9 students in the Samad Al Shaan area, in addition to an expatriate, while the search is still ongoing for 5 missing persons. In the state of Al-Mudhaibi.

The Sultanate of Oman is witnessing heavy rains that led to floods.

The Omani Ministry of Education announced the suspension of work in schools, and the conversion of studies to “distance learning” in all public, private and foreign schools in a number of governorates tomorrow, Monday.

In a comment on the incident, Dr. Ali bin Humaid Al-Jahouri, Director General of the General Directorate of Education in Muscat Governorate, and the official spokesman for the Ministry of Education, said: The Ministry expresses its sincere condolences to the families of the students who passed away in North Al Sharqiyah Governorate.

The official spokesman for the Ministry of Education added: The school that lost the students today did not reach the valleys, but rather the guardian was the one who took the students out and accompanied them.