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The Royal Oman Police said the boat carried 25 French tourists plus a tour guide and captain when it capsized.<\/p>\n
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At least three French tourists have drowned in Oman after the boat they were in capsized in waters off the sultanate\u2019s capital city of Muscat, police said.<\/p>\n
The Royal Oman Police on Tuesday said the boat carried 25 French tourists, as well as a tour guide and a boat captain, when it capsized in the Gulf of Oman. It said three tourists died and two suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
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The police said in a short statement that \u201cinvestigations are still ongoing to determine the circumstances of the incident\u201d.<\/p>\n
The boat was 2.5 nautical miles from Sultan \u200bQaboos Port \u200cin the Gulf of Oman when it tipped over. In addition \u200cto those killed, two tourists \u200csustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Local media reported that the boat was on its way to the Dimaniyat Islands, a diving hotspot located to the northwest of the capital, known for its pristine underwater environment.<\/p>\n
France\u2019s \u2060foreign ministry has not yet commented on the incident.<\/p>\n
Oman, on the eastern edge of the Arabian Peninsula, is increasingly drawing international travellers for its diving and the natural beauty of its mountains and coastline.<\/p>\n
The country welcomed nearly four million visitors in 2024, and the government is aiming to triple that figure by 2040 with a focus on sustainable tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The Royal Oman Police said the boat carried 25 French tourists plus a tour guide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,1076,594,451,129,3,15581,452,453,6808],"class_list":["post-432591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-headlines","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-oman","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}