Five Pakistanis, a father, mother and three of their children, were killed in a fire that broke out in their tents in central Jordan’s Karak governorate, a Jordanian security source told AFP. A spokesman for the Public Security Administration was quoted in the statement. Amer Al-Sartawi said that “firefighters and ambulances at the Civil Defense Directorate of Karak (118 km south of Amman) put out a fire that broke out in two tents in the Al-Mazraa Mountains area at dawn on Tuesday, resulting in the death of five people Asian nationality as a result of severe burns.
A security source who wished to remain anonymous told AFP that the victims were Pakistani nationals and worked in agriculture. For his part, director of forensics in the southern region, Dr. Hassan Khawari, said: “The bodies of five people were admitted to the forensic office as a result of exposure to charred burns that led to their death.” that “the bodies belong to a father (34 years old), a mother (31 years old) and three daughters (6 and 8 years old). years and 9 years).
Al-Sartavi confirmed that the security services “have launched an investigation to find out the causes of the fire.” The source of the fire is still unknown, but primitive and cheap heating methods usually lead to such fires, especially since Saudi Arabia is exposed to a cold wave accompanied by rain.
Thousands of Pakistanis work in Jordan, especially in agriculture, and most of them live in tents set up near the farms where they work. On December 20, 2021, four Pakistanis, a father, mother and two of their children, were killed in a fire that broke out in their tent in Al Balqa province, 30 kilometers west of Amman.
