Flash floods kill 11 in Jordan

AMMAN: Flash floods killed 11 people in Jordan and forced nearly 4,000 tourists to flee the famed ancient desert city of Petra. Search teams were scouring valleys near the historic hill town of Madaba for two young girls still missing after Friday’s floods, civil defence spokesman Iyad Amru told state television in an update yesterday. Designated a Unesco world heritage site in 1985, Petra draws hundreds of thousands of tourists a year to its rock-hewn treasury, temples and mausoleums.