Three three gunmen who shot and killed six people at a mosque in Oman on Monday were all Omani nationals, police said yesterday.
The Royal Oman Police said the three gunmen were brothers and “were killed due to their insistence on resisting security personnel”.
It said that police investigations had indicated that the three gunmen were “influenced by misguided ideas”.
The six people killed by the gunmen were four Pakistani nationals, an Indian and a police officer responding to the attack at the Ali bin Abi Talib mosque in the Wadi Al Kabir neighbourhood of Oman’s capital Muscat.
The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed that three of its “suicide attackers” fired on worshippers at the mosque and exchanged gunfire with Omani security forces.
Dozens of people were wounded in the attack with around 30 people treated at local hospitals, including for gunshot wounds.
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