Muscat – A total of nine foreign nationals were arrested by the Royal Oman Police (ROP), in two different incidents, for illegal entry into Oman.

In a statement, ROP said, ‘The Police Command of South Batinah Governorate arrested four infiltrators of African nationalities for entering the country illegally.’ Legal proceedings are being completed against them, it added.

In another incident, ROP seized two boats and arrested five infiltrators from them. ‘The boats carried over 2000 bundles of qat,’ ROP stated.