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A 28-day-old baby boy, his two-year-old brother and four-year-old sister are among the missing members of an Indian family whose car was swept away in a flooded wadi.

The entire extended family - except for dad Sardar Fazal Ahmed - are missing and feared dead after a day trip to a scenic wadi ended in tragedy.

Speaking exclusively to Times of Oman, Sardar recounted the final moments when he last saw his family  - including his own parents - and pleaded with everyone in Oman to heed safety advice given by the authorities.
Sardar, a pharmacist who has been working in Oman for two years, managed to grab a palm tree branch and pull himself out of the fast-flowing waters in Wadi Ban Khalid, near Ibra.
His parents, Khan and Shabana, his wife Arshi, daughter Sidra, 4, son Zaid, 2, and newborn infant son Nooh, were all swept away.

His parents had flown from India to join him in Oman, after the birth of his baby boy and were due to fly home today, May 20.
Rescue teams have located the mangled wreckage of the hire car they drove to Wadi Ban Khalid. Until now, there has been no trace of Sardar's family.



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