The archaeological site of Petra, in the south of Jordan, was suddenly struck by floods on Sunday May 4, which led to its evacuation in the precipitation. In online shared videos, notably by German wave, You can see strips of water fall on the UNESCO world Heritage Site and then turn into muddy current rushing down the mountainous reefs.
“Panic has taken up the site classified among the seven [nouvelles] wonders of the world where, faced with floods caused by torrential rains, the Jordanian authorities have evacuated visitors ”, describes the site The New Arab. Nearly 1,800 tourists, mostly foreign, were put out of danger by the Jordanian authorities.
An assessment communicated by the authorities reports two dead. The rescue teams found “The bodies of a woman and her son, both of Belgian nationality, who had been missing after floods in the Shobak region, about 200 kilometers south of Amman”, A few tens of kilometers north of Petra, said the Directorate of the Jordanian General Security.
This is not the first time that this major tourist center, an ancient Nabatean city founded over two thousand years ago, is subject to floods. In 2021, a similar episode had killed three people, while in 2018, 30 people were killed in lightning floods.
