The Royal Oman Police made the announcement in a tweet Tuesday morning.
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Fourteen people were also injured in the pre-dawn accident on the road between Ibri and Fahud, ONA said citing police. Fahud and Ibri are cities west of the capital, Muscat.
Some of those who survived have serious injuries. A bus and truck collision in Oman killed 18 people, including foreigners. The ROP is working to identify the nationalities of others with the help of hospital authorities and the bus operator. The injured include ten Omanis, two Saudis, one Pakistani and a Chinese national.
Traffic crashes are not uncommon in the Gulf states.
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In February 2013, at least 22 migrant workers died when a gravel-filled truck with faulty brakes rammed into a bus near in Al Ain, an Emirati city on the Omani border. “It is in the bus itself and the Salalah office will have more details”, the GTC Bus Service office in Deira Dubai told Emirates 24|7.
