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Jordan searches for survivors after floods kill 20 people, many children

Vehicles wade through rain water after a sudden thunderstorm, at a street in Amman, Jordan, on Thursday. At least 18 people, most of them children, died after flash floods swept away a school bus carrying students who were on a trip near the Dead Sea area. Photo by Andre Pain/EPA

Rescuers combed the shores of Jordan’s Dead Sea early on Friday, searching for survivors, after flash floods killed at least 20 people, most of them children on a school outing.

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