SIX Chinese workers were killed and 16 others injured
Wednesday in a road accident in Jordan, the Chinese Embassy in
Amman said yesterday.
The accident took place when a bus they were traveling in
hit a truck and overturned in the northern Irbid district,
embassy officials said.
The workers were from factories in the Hassan industrial
park, the largest industrial estate in the kingdom, where some
4,000 Chinese workers are employed.
Police are investigating the accident. They said the
morning accident involved a third vehicle, which hit the rear
of the bus whose driver lost control.
The accident occurred on a highway linking the northern
towns of Mafraq and Ramtha.
Ramtha is on the outskirts of Irbid, Jordan's second
largest city and 100 kilometers north of the capital Amman.
Irbid houses joint Jordanian-Israeli industrial projects which
employ workers from Asia and the Far East.
The wounded included four Jordanians, but the nationality
of the others was not immediately clear.
(SD-Agencies)
