“THE HALL of the mosque was packed with hundreds of worshippers and the atmosphere was heavy with tension as the sound of panicked, laboured breathing grew louder. The relentless firing of bullets echoed for over an hour, eventually becoming sporadic, but for nearly three hours, death loomed over us.” This is how a Pakistani eyewitness trapped inside the imambargah in Oman’s Al Wadi Al Kabir … Continue reading ‘Tense, chaotic, and horrific’: eyewitness describes scenes during Oman attack