Mar 4, 2012
MUSCAT:Six Indians were today burnt alive in a horrific head-on collision between two trucks near Mamur town in the north-west of Muscat in Oman. Of the six dead, five are Malayalees from Thiruvananthapuram.
MUSCAT:Six Indians were today burnt alive in a horrific head-on collision between two trucks near Mamur town in the north-west of Muscat in Oman. Of the six dead, five are Malayalees from Thiruvananthapuram.
Two pickup trucks collided and one carrying six workers caught fire at around 4pm," P.M. Jabir, Welfare Secretary with the Indian Social Club, told Gulf News.
Bodies were kept at Bahla hospital and Nizwa hospital.
"All the deceased worked for a construction company and were travelling in a twin-cabin pick up to go to their work site," he said.
The dead Keralites were identified as Anil Kumar (38), Vishnu Bhargavan Villappil (38), Prasad Balakrishna Pillai (39), Sujikrishnan (29) and Johnson (35). All of them hail from Thiruvananthapuram district.
The Omani company that employed these Indians from Kerala has initiated procedures to repatriate the bodies.
"We will provide whatever help the company may need in completing formalities," the ISC Welfare Secretary said.
