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“I could not stop crying when the ambulances brought the coffins of the seven to the mosque for funeral,” said Yassir Al Balushi from Buraimi, where the larger members of the Bani Ka’ab tribe live.
The family including Saif, his wife Mariam Ghareeb Rashed Al Ka’abi, their sons Mohammed (26, a pilot with Etihad), Ahmed (8), Humaid and Abdullah, and four daughters —Fatima (18), Hamda (24), Afra (27) and Sara (15) — had gone to Salalah for Khareef festival about five days before they met with the fatal accident. Humaid and Abdullah were in another vehicle, which was following their father’s 4WD when the accident involving a truck and another vehicle driven by an Omani occurred. Two Omanis in the other car also lost their lives.
“The family every year frequented Salalah during this season to attend the annual festival. Saif was very familiar with the routes and each and every corner of the place,” Salem Ghareeb Rashed Al Ka’abi, the brother of Mariam, who sustained multiple injuries and is taking treatment at Sultan Qaboos Hospital in Salalah.
Elaborating on the accident, Salem said that Saif and the rest of the family were returning from Mughassayl to Salalah after a day-long trip when the accident occurred.
“According to the reports we have, they were taking the mountain where they saw the truck coming down. There was another vehicle, which the truck tried to overtake and it resulted in the crash. All the seven were killed on the spot while my sister got injured and was rushed to the hospital in Salalah,” he explained.
Salem Al Adawi, one of Saif’s son-in-laws, said his father-in-law had ten children – four boys and six girls. “Hamda is married and Sara was the youngest daughter, who was a student at Zayed University. Two more daughters, including my wife and her sister are here in Al Ain,” he said.
“My mother-in-law has been shifted from Sultan Qaboos Hospital in Salalah to Shaikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi in another special plane ordered by His Highness the President,” he said on Tuesday.
Salalah, which is the only monsoon forest in the Middle East region, is flooded with tourists from the UAE and other GCC countries in the August and witnesses such fatal accidents almost every year.
nissar@khaleejtimes.com
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