One dead, one injured in Tuwi landslide
A number of people were injured when a landslide took place on the evening of October 19 near the town of Samail in the Dakhilyah Governorate
MUSCAT: Emergency services and hospital staff tried in vain to save the life of a man who’d died in a landslide after a portion of a mountain he was on collapsed in Tuwi, near the town of Samail in the Dakhilyah Governorate, about 77 kilometres away from Oman’s capital, Muscat.
A number of people were injured when a landslide took place on the evening of October 19, with rescue and paramedic teams from the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) rushing to the spot the moment they’d gotten wind of the news.
Using diggers and high-beam flashlights, PACDA rescue teams in hard hats searched frantically for the victim, in the hopes that he would still be alive. Although he was immediately rushed to the nearest hospital, doctors declared him dead on arrival.
“A report of the collapse of part of a mountain, with preliminary information indicating the presence of people trapped,” tweeted PACDA. “Rescue teams are on site, more updates later.”
Update residents
PACDA continued to update residents with follow-up tweets in the aftermath of the accident.
“A mountain collapsed on a machine and the person trapped inside was found dead,” they added, in a series of tweets. “Search and rescue teams have declared him dead after finding him trapped in the mountain.”
The public authority was also quick to pinpoint where exactly the accident had taken place, after previous conflicting reports had led to false assumptions that it had taken place near the town of Nizwa, about 140 kilometres from Muscat.