Four killed in shooting near Oman mosque: police
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Muscat: Four people were killed and multiple others wounded in a shooting near a mosque in Oman s capital Muscat, police said Tuesday. The shooting...
Muscat: Four people were killed and multiple others wounded in a shooting near a mosque in Oman's capital Muscat, police said Tuesday.
The shooting is a rare occurence in the otherwise stable sultanate, which has a Muslim-majority population, including a small minority of Shiites.
"The Royal Oman Police have responded to a shooting incident that occurred in the vicinity of a mosque in the Al-Wadi Al-Kabir area," police said in a statement.
The force gave an initial toll of four killed and "several others" wounded at the mosque in eastern Muscat.
There were Pakistanis among the wounded, but the numbers have yet to be confirmed, according to Islamabad's embassy in Oman.
