Muscat: A group of Emirati volunteers arrived Oman on Sunday to help the authorities in Oman search for the two Emiraits brothers who are believed to have drowned in the Mirbat province last Thursday.
The group includes friends of the missing brothers as well as other Emiratis nationals.
Ahmad Al Shamsi, one of the volunteers, told Gulf News that they are camping nearby the area where the boys went missing and are searching the whole Mirbat beach stretch.
“They are our best friends and we hope to find them alive”, says Al Shamsi.
Moreover, the search operations by the Public Authority for Civil Defense and Ambulance (PACDA), Coast Guards, Royal Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force, continued for the fifth consecutive day.
There have been no traces of the missing brothers so far, according to an official at the PACDA.
According to fishermen in the Mirbat coastal area, sea currents could eventually carry the bodies of the two missing brothers to shore in the coming days, if they are not found by search teams.
The tragedy occurred when four Emiratis went swimming in the Dimr area of Mirbat in the Dhofar governorate. Abdullah Mohammad Mansoor Al Dahri, 21 and Mansoor Mohammad Al Dahri, 19 went swimming in the sea despite warnings from authorities over rough waters.
Mohammad Al Dahri, a cousin who was with the brothers when the water dragged them away, painfully recounted to Gulf News the incident.
“Abdullah refused to let go of his little brother who was not a good swimmer after he saw him struggling to keep his head above the water,” he said.
High waves are believed to have dragged the Emirati brothers further into the sea.
Four Emiratis drowned at Magseal beach in Salalah between 2012 and 2014.
