21 killed in Jordan road accident: police

AFP, January, 2008

AMMAN (AFP) — Twenty-one people were killed and more than 30 injured on Saturday in a bus crash on the road between the Jordanian capital and the northern city of Irbid, police said.

"A bus collided with another heavy vehicle on the Amman-Irbid road, resulting in 21 people dead and 33 injured," spokesman Major Mohammed Khatib told AFP, updating an earlier casualty toll.

The state-run Petra news agency said the bus, coming from the Red Sea port of Aqaba in southern Jordan, collided with a water tanker on a main road ...