{"id":19818,"date":"2018-10-25T19:22:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19818"},"modified":"2018-10-25T19:22:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:22:48","slug":"jordan-floods-schoolchildren-among-18-dead-after-bus-swept-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19818","title":{"rendered":"Jordan floods: Schoolchildren among 18 dead after bus swept away"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"97\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">At least 18 people, mostly children, were killed when torrential rains swept away a bus carrying students and teachers touring near the Dead Sea, according to sources in the country&#8217;s civil defence directorate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Most of the dead are reported to be schoolchildren under the age of 14. Officials said the death toll was\u00a0 expected rise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The official news agency Petra said 37 students, along with seven adults, had been touring near the Dead Sea when heavy rains unleashed flash floods in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Ghazi al-Zaben, Jordan&#8217;s health minister, had earlier said that 11 people were also injured, adding 21 others on the school outing were rescued late on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A number of families picnicking in the popular destination were also among the dead and injured, rescuers said, without giving a breakdown of numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Petra said Jordanian Prime Minister Omar Razzaz was on the scene to oversee the rescue mission. King Abdullah also cancelled a trip to Bahrain to follow the rescue operations, Petra reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that Jordanian authorities requested Israeli assistance in the search and rescue effort.<\/p>\n<p>Israel sent search-and-rescue helicopters to help, an Israeli military statement said.<\/p>\n<p>It said the Israeli team, was operating on the Jordanian side of the Dead Sea, where a bus carrying the students and teachers was swept into a valley by rain-stoked floodwaters.Heavy rain is set to continue across the region into Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 18 people, mostly children, were killed when torrential rains swept away a bus carrying students and teachers touring near the Dead Sea, according to sources in the country&#8217;s civil defence directorate. Most of the dead are reported to be schoolchildren under the age of 14. Officials said the death toll was\u00a0 expected rise.\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}