Indian toddler in critical condition after Oman car crash that killed six
- The three-year-old’s parents and baby brother also died in the crash on road to Dubai on Friday night
Oman: An Indian toddler is in critical condition in a hospital in Oman after a car crash that killed her parents, younger brother and three others at the weekend.
Gousulla Khan, 31, his wife, Ayesha Siddiqua, 31, and their two children – Haniyaa, 3, and Hamza, eight months – were returning to their home in Dubai from Salalah on Friday when their car collided with another car carrying three Omanis around midnight.
Khan, Siddiqua and Hamza died instantly while Haniyaa, who suffered severe head injuries, was taken to Nizwa Hospital in Oman.
Royal Oman Police said the crash occurred in Al Wusta Governate.
“The accident occurred when a vehicle overturned and collided with another vehicle, [resulting] in the deaths of three citizens from the first vehicle and three expatriates who were in the second vehicle,” an official told the Times of Oman.
The Indian embassy in Oman spoke to the Khan family and repatriated the bodies to India, with the help of Deccan Wing, a social organisation set up in Oman by Indian expatriates from Hyderabad.
The bodies arrived on Sunday when funerals were held.
The embassy said Haniyaa had since been transferred to Khoula Hospital in Muscat for “specialised treatment.”
“The accident occurred between 1 am and 2 am on Friday,” Mushtaq Ahmed, a lecturer at the Nizwa College of Technology and a member of Deccan Wing, told The National on Sunday.
“Despite getting copies of the family’s passports, we were not initially able to locate their relatives.”
He said people on social media helped him find the relatives of the deceased.
Mr Ahmed said Khan was an employee at a contracting company in Dubai while his wife was a homemaker.
Azizullah Khan, the younger brother of Gousulla, said the family was on their way back from a holiday in Oman when the accident happened.
Source – Thenational.ae
3 of an Indian family killed in Oman crash
Dubai, Sep 16 (IANS) Three members of a Dubai-based Indian family, including an eight-month-old baby, were killed in a road accident in Oman, the Consulate General of India in Dubai has confirmed.
Three Omani nationals were also killed in the accident which took place on Friday on the highway that connects the UAE to Salalah, Oman, The Khaleej Times reported on Sunday.
The victims were identified as Gousulla Azmathullah Khan, his wife Ayesha Siddique, and their baby son Hamza, the Consulate General of India said on Sunday.
The couple’s three-year-old daughter is battling for life at an Omani hospital, it added.
The Times of Oman quoted a police official as saying that the Omanis’ vehicle overturned, after which the Dubai residents’ car crashed into it.
Mushtaq Ahmed, a member of the Omani-Indian community group Deccan Wings, said the group has been providing help to the family.
Consul-General of India to Dubai Vipul told Khaleej Times that the mortal remains of the three victims have been flown back to India.
“The Consulate is in touch with the company, and there are relatives with the child in Muscat. Our embassy in Oman is also providing all assistance to the family.”