Cyclone Gonu left Oman and Iran, where it killed at least 35 people in both countries and caused devastation, and swept into the Strait of Hormuz, a major oil shipping route on Friday, though its power was waning.
Iranian state television said the hurricane left Iran in the afternoon and was heading towards Hormuz, through which a fifth of world oil supplies pass.
An Iranian official said the hurricane had weakened and its “impact will be completely gone”, he told the official ISNA news agency.
The Omani news agency ONA said at least 32 people had been killed and 30 were missing. Three people were reported killed in Iran on Thursday and nine were missing.
The Omani official news agency said winds from Gonu, now downgraded to a Category One hurricane, were moderate and sea waves were about two metres high.
Officials said the hurricane damaged main roads and bridges connecting the eastern provinces with the capital Muscat and caused floods and landslides across all regions.
Omani police said rescue teams, using helicopters, searched for missing people and evacuated residents from valleys near Muscat. The Omani official news agency said at least 32 people had been killed.
One witness said he had to take his children to the rooftop of his three-storey house in Muscat to flee the rising water.
In Iran, people within 300 metres of the coast in Hormozgan province had been evacuated, and at least 300 villages were completely cut off, Iran state television said.
State media said roads and houses in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan had been damaged and many coastal areas were cut off by flooding.

Missing Sailors
Further north to Oman’s east coast, the United Arab Emirates’ port of Fujairah, one of the world’s largest ship refuelling centres, said 11 sailors were rescued after their boat sank in regional Omani waters on Wednesday.
Port Director Moussa Murad said there were 10 sailors missing from the same boat. The rescued sailors were nine Indians, a Sudanese and one Eritrean.
The port reopened on Thursday after it closed on Wednesday.
Oman’s weather centre, which has been keeping records since 1890, says Gonu could be the strongest storm to reach Oman’s coast since 1977.
Gonu peaked as a maximum-force Category Five hurricane on Tuesday and faded to a Category One hurricane on Wednesday. Apart from the 32 dead, at least 30 people were missing, Omani news agency said.

Pipeline Checks
Oman’s only 650,000 barrel per day oil terminal Minal al Fahal resumed operations after a three-day closure. Oman carried out tests on pipelines in the terminal before it resumed operations.
Petroleum Development Oman said on Thursday that operations and facilities had escaped damage.
The storm had raised fears of a disruption to exports from the Middle East, which pumps over a quarter of the world’s oil, pushing prices to around $71 a barrel on Thursday.