(UTV|COLOMBO) – Cyclone Mekunu has hit southern Oman with high winds and rain, killing a 12-year-old girl and leaving three other people injured, the BBC reported.
The girl died after wind swept her against a wall, police say.
State TV showed large areas of flooding in Dhofar and al-Wusta provinces, with dozens of vehicles submerged.
The cyclone intensified in strength on Friday but has now been downgraded and officials said it would weaken further into a tropical storm.
Cyclone Mekunu’s landfall to the west of Salalah, Oman’s second city, came a day after it lashed the Yemeni island of Socotra, where at least seven people were reported to have been killed.
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