Police in Al Ain said the bodies were transferred to the Al Ain and Tawam hospitals by road and the burial ceremony will be held on the Al Fajr prayers (dawn) at Al Fouah graveyard.
“It was a freak accident,” an eyewitness told Gulf News from Sohar. A long-time resident of the Industrial Port Town, the eyewitness said the accident took place after a huge power transformer slipped off a Saudi-registered trailer truck and fell on the road going in the opposite direction.
“When the trailer truck swerved near Oman Mining Company, the power transformer slipped and fell on the other side of the road,” the expatriate said on condition of anonymity.
“The three vehicles collided with the fallen transformer at a high speed,” the eyewitness said, adding that two of the ill-fated vehicles were registered in the UAE.
The truck was on its way from Buraimi Wadi Jizi to Sohar while the three vehicles involved in the accident were going in the other direction.
Nine of the 10 people who died were Emiratis, including women and children. They were travelling in two UAE-registered Land Cruisers when tragedy struck. “The third vehicle was a pick-up van and an Omani died in that,” the eyewitness added.
The ROP traffic department Tweet confirmed that a power transformer that had fallen into the path of oncoming traffic from the other side of the four-lane highway had caused the accident.
