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One of the Seven Wonders of the World was hit by flash floods on Sunday May 4th.
One of the Seven Wonders of the World was hit by flash floods on Sunday May 4th.
Tradegy at World Wonder
Tragedy struck one of the Seven Wonders of the World on Sunday May 4th, as flash floods hit, causing the evacuations of hundreds of tourist. Tragically, not all was saved.
Mother and son
A mother and son lost their lives when streams sprung up and poured down the mountainsides of the famous gully near the carved palace in Petra, Jordan.
A light in the Dark
The Belgian woman andh er three sons were reportet missing after the flash floods hit, and Monday May 5th, the bodies of the mother and one of the sons were recovered. Sunday evening, the other two children were found alive and brought to safety.
Search called off due to weather
The family was part of an 18-tourist adventure tour to the poplar tourist hot spot, that gets more than a million visitors a year. Authorities had to call of the search at 2 AM monday morning due to dangerous weather conditions, and the bodies were found efter the search resumed Monday,
Heavy rains and dry desert valleys
Jordan is often hit by flash floods, as heavy rainfall make the dry desert valleys flood – and this incident is not the first time lives has been lost.
30 dead i 2018
In 2018, two seperate incidents took the lives of 30 people, One of the tragedies was a School Bus being washed away on a field trip, claiming 18 lives. In 2021, 3 people perished when their car was swept away.
7000 Years old
The famous ancient city, Al.Khazneh, was carved into the mountainsides when Petra’s population was at 20,000, during the first century A.D. It is a revered archeological site, as well as a tourist hotspot.