MUSCAT:Search and rescue teams have recovered Sardar Fazal Ahmed, the Indian expat’s, mother’s body from a flooded wadi in Ibra, authorities have confirmed.

Sardar’s entire extended family was swept away in flash floods in Wadi Bani Khalid on Saturday.

Officials are now awaiting blood test results to officially confirm Sardar’s identification.

Speaking to English daily Times of Oman, Sardar said: “I could tell right away that the body is that of my mother. “I am hopeful that I will be able to go ahead with the burial in a couple of days once I have fulfilled all the legal procedures between Oman and India.”

“And, hopefully, my two brothers and sister will soon join me in Ibra for the funeral of our mother.” A Public Authority for Civil Defence and Ambulance (PACDA) official said they were awaiting positive identification via medical tests to confirm that the remains are those of his mother, Shabana Begum.

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

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 Bani 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. Rescue teams had located the mangled wreckage of the hire car they drove to Wadi Bani Khalid.