The Omani police announced on Tuesday that a shooting incident near a landmark mosque in the capital resulted in four deaths and multiple other injuries.
The attack took place early on Tuesday, July 16 in the Wadi al-Kabir district, near the Imam Ali Mosque.
The incident unfolded on the day of Ashura when Shia Muslims commemorate the seventh-century battlefield martyrdom of Imam Hussein, son of Imam Ali ibn Talib and the grandson of Prophet Muhammad.