A flash flood in southern Jordan killed an elderly man on Saturday as torrential rains and heavy snowfall swept the desert country, trapping 300 people who had to be rescued, officials said. The kingdom’s civil defence office reported “the death of a citizen in his 70s who was swept away…
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