Taking to X, the Indian embassy in Oman said, “Following the shooting incident reported in Muscat city on 15 July, Foreign Ministry of Sultanate of Oman has informed that one Indian national has lost his life & another is injured.”
“Embassy offers its sincere condolences & stands ready to offer all assistance to the families,” it added.
Monday’s mosque attack, which has yet to be claimed, came as Shiites this week mark Ashura, an annual day of mourning that commemorates the seventh-century death in battle of Imam Hussein, regarded by the sect as the rightful successor to the Prophet Mohammed.
“The Royal Oman Police have responded to a shooting incident that occurred in the vicinity of a mosque in the Al-Wadi Al-Kabir area” of the capital, a police statement said.
The three gunmen behind the attack were killed and police officers have “concluded the procedures for dealing with the shooting,” it said.
The area remained cordoned off on Tuesday, with journalists unable to access the mosque, an AFP photographer reported.
Oman has a population of more than four million, of whom upwards of 40 percent are expat workers, mostly from south Asia, according to government figures.
Shiites make up a small minority of Oman’s overwhelmingly Muslim population. Most Omanis follow the Sunni or Ibadi branches of the faith.
While several attacks on Shiite mosques have roiled the Gulf in recent years, Tuesday’s attack is a first for Oman.