Dubai: The Sultanate of Oman has reported a significant increase in the number of road injuries involving camels, local media reported.
According to data released by the National Centre for Statistics and Information (NCSI), Dhofar governorate has noticed an increase in the number of deaths and accidental injuries related to stray camels.
The number of stray camel-related injuries rose to 20 in Dhofar governorate alone, an increase of 17% between 2021 and 2020.
According to NCSI data, there were 11 street camel-related deaths in 2021 and forty-five cases of injuries.
At the same time, more than 53% of traffic accidents in 2021 were caused by collision and more than 20 young people under 7 years of age suffered them.
Traffic injuries in the Sultanate in 2021 the death of 24 children under the age of 7, at the rate of two children per month, according to the report on the traffic formula published by the NCSI.
According to the report, 84 children under the age of 7 were injured in the turn of the destination of traffic last year, accounting for 5. 3% of the total number of victims of the turn of fate in traffic in 2021.
The report also found that more than a portion of all traffic injury deaths (another 221 people) were in the 26-50 age group.
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