MUSCAT, 04 October 2021, (TON): Flights were suspended and schools closed as the storm, with wind speeds up to 139 kilometres an hour, was due to cross Oman's north coast in the evening.

Authorities said “at least nine people were killed in Oman and Iran on Sunday as Tropical Cyclone Shaheen pummelled parts of their coastlines.”

Officials said “in Oman, two people died in a landslide and a child in flash flooding.”

Oman's National Committee for Emergency Management said “rescue teams pulled the bodies of two Asian workers from their home hit by a landslide in the Rusayl industrial area of Muscat province.”

The child died and another person was reported missing in flash floods in the capital's province, it added.

Flights were suspended and schools closed as the storm, with wind speeds up to 139 kilometres an hour, was due to cross Oman's north coast in the evening.

The capital, Muscat, vehicles were tyre-deep in water and streets deserted.

Across the sea in Iran, six people were killed in Chabahar port in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan, parliament's news agency ICANA reported, citing deputy speaker Ali Nikzad.