Eight killed in road accidents, fire since Wednesday — officials

By Sawsan Tabazah - Aug 13,2016 - Last updated at Aug 13,2016

The site of an accident in Irbid late last week (Photo courtesy of Amen FM)

AMMAN — Eight people were killed and 31 injured in traffic accidents and fires across the Kingdom since Wednesday, official sources said on Saturday.

On Friday, a 12-year-old boy died after he was run over in Amman’s Jabal Nasser neighbourhood, said Lt. Col. Yaser Habahbeh of the Central Traffic Department.

Moreover, a 19-year-old man was run over and killed in Zarqa, and another person was hit by a car and injured in the same city, some 22km east of Amman, according to Habahbeh.

In Zeezya, near the Queen Alia International Airport, one person was killed when a vehicle overturned after changing lanes suddenly, according to Habahbeh. Also on Friday, six people were injured in an accident on a main road in Zarqa, he added.

On Saturday, Civil Defence Department (CDD) personnel took two people to Istishari Hospital after they were injured in a fire at a bakery in Amman’s Rabiah neighbourhood.

“They suffered from second degree burns,” a CDD official told The Jordan Times.

Also Saturday, five people were injured in a road accident in Amman’s Muqabalein area and nine people were injured in a crash in Jerash’s Katteh area, Habahbeh said.

Meanwhile on Thursday, a man died when a fire erupted in a room he was staying in, in Maan, 220km south of Amman, the CDD officer said.

The victim was not Jordanian and authorities do not have any information about him yet, the source said.

In two separate road accidents on the same day in Amman, six people were injured and listed in fair condition, Habahbeh said.

On Wednesday, two people died and one was injured when three vehicles collided in Husun near Irbid, he added.

Meanwhile, one person died and another was injured when a vehicle overturned on the Irbid-Mafraq road, Habahbeh said, adding that the injured person was listed in fair condition.

Also on Wednesday, a young woman died and two people were injured when a vehicle changed lanes suddenly, causing an accident in Tafileh, 180km southwest of Amman, the traffic official said.

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