20 dead in flash flood in Jordan

The death toll from flash flooding near Jordan’s shore of the Dead Sea has risen to 20 in what officials said was one of the deadliest incidents in the kingdom involving schoolchildren.

The search for survivors continued with helicopters and teams with sniffer dogs scouring the slopes near the Dead Sea in the Jordan Valley.

The body of a 12-year-old girl was found early yesterday and several more people are still missing, the director general of the Civil Defence said.