Body of flood victim to be flown home

THE body of Ms Geraldine Power, who died in a flash flood in Oman at the weekend, is due to arrive in Ireland for burial tomorrow…

THE body of Ms Geraldine Power, who died in a flash flood in Oman at the weekend, is due to arrive in Ireland for burial tomorrow. Ms Power, who was from Ballygarret, Co Waterford, was one of seven people who died after being trapped in a gorge near Rustaq during a storm.

She was teaching english in Oman and had gone to visit Snake Gorge with a group of foreign nationals working in Oman, including her husband, Mr Neil Conneally, a software engineer. The other victims of the disaster were four American and two British nationals.

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