Muscat: A stray bullet lodged in a four-year-old Saudi girl’s head was successfully removed on Tuesday in Muscat’s Al Nahda hospital.
The bullet’s fragments were also removed from Zainab Al Labad’s head.
The medical team tasked with the face and head surgeries took two hours to remove the bullet, sources at Nahda hospital told Gulf News.
The girl is now in a stable condition, and is expected to be discharged by Friday.
Officials from the Saudi Embassy in Muscat as well as residents of Diba, where the incident took place, visited the child in the hospital.
Mohammad Al Labad, Zainab’s father, thanked the Omani government for taking care of his child.
Zainab was injured in the Dibba hotel off the Musandam governorate on Saturday after a bullet from celebratory fire at a nearby wedding fell on her.
She was playing with her brother in the front yard of the hotel at the time of the accident.
The wedding was taking place about two kilometres from the hotel.
The man who fired the weapon was arrested by the Royal Oman Police. Firing of rifles in the air is a common occurrence at Arab weddings, despite it being illegal in several countries, including Oman.
