Oman- PACDA receives 90 calls for help during rain

(MENAFN- Muscat Daily) Muscat- Adverse weather last week led to several rescue operations being carried out by the Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulances (PACDA).
The PACDA teams attended to 90 rescue calls of people trapped in wadis and houses, fires and for pumping out water from affected houses.
Meanwhile, PACDA teams continued their search operations on Sunday for the remaining two missing members of the Asian family in Wadi Bani Khalid. The family was swept away in the wadi on May 18.

The rescue operations were conducted between May 18 and 21 when Oman was affected by low pressure leading to heavy rainfall.

Col Mubarak bin Salim al Araimi, director general of Operations and Training in PACDA said, 'We received 90 calls for help during heavy rain between May 18 and 21. The Governorate of North Sharqiyah reported 19 calls, followed by Muscat at 17, Dhahirah at 16, North Batinah at 15, Dakhliyah at ten, six each in South Batinah and South Sharqiyah, and one in Buraimi.'

Col Araimi said that the search and rescue operations totalled 37 during this period. They comprised 35 per cent stuck in flooded areas, 25 per cent related to fires, 13 per cent accidents and nine per cent were related to cases of patients transferred to hospitals and four per cent house collapses.

He said PACDA teams continued their search operations for the remaining two missing members of the Asian family in Wadi Bani Khalid.

The ROP too continued its search on Sunday. Brig Saeed bin Saleh al Azri, chief of North Sharqiyah Police Command said, 'Rescue teams have covered about 40km of the Wadi Bani Khalid area. We have recovered four bodies of the missing Asian family. We will cover another 10km of rest of the wadi area to find the remaining two bodies. We have encountered great difficulties in the first three days of search due to heavy rainfall and the flooded wadi.'

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