Dead Sea Dead .. Field stories told by the owners

Ayman Fadilat - Amman

The young man Munzer al-Azza did not take the shock when he heard of the death of his daughter Reem in the tragic incident of the school trip in the Dead Sea area of ​​Jordan, after the raging flood waters washed away her body and her friends to the sea.

However, the most severe shock that occurred on Munther was the announcement that his second daughter, Hind, was missing. He did not shut his eyelids all day, and he did not rest his mind thinking about the fate of his second daughter, calling on God to be alive.

The doctor was asked to accompany him to the dead room to find out the body of his daughter, Hind, on Friday morning, after rescue teams managed to get her out of the Dead Sea.

The hours of Friday passed heavy on Munther and his family; shock shock prevented him from talking and remained silent, did not interrupt his silence, but the father of a student lost his only son when he came to Ywasih and comfort himself in their plight.

Painful stories
At the gates of the forensic department of Al-Bashir State Hospital, the afflicted families gathered, exchanging condolences among themselves, intertwining each other, amid fainting and tears.

Rescue operations still underway in hopes of finding missing persons (Reuters)

Since the early hours of the morning, the parents of the dead students came to the forensic yard to take the bodies of their children for burial, and the priority of delivery was according to the time of death, who found rescue teams on Thursday afternoon delivered his body to his parents early.

Stories come from the families of the victims in the hospital yard. A father came to take the body of his 13-year-old son, who died only three years after a traffic accident.

The father of a 15-year-old girl has just returned from a Gulf country to embrace the body of his daughter, after a two-year separation in which he did not see his daughter.

The disaster not only stopped Jordanians, but also included three Iraqis: two school students and a 20-year-old girl believed to be accompanying the school trip.

The Last Look
The wounded students in the accident who left the hospital were keen to share the families 'last look at their colleagues who had died, some of them severely fractured, but had refused to attend their friends' farewell.

The media in Jordan have been angered over the past two days by the anger of the incident, and a tweet of Jordan's King Abdullah II Ibn al-Hussein mourned the death of the tragic incident.

The King said in his twitter comment: "My grief and pain are great and great, and I can only equate my anger with those who failed to take the measures that could have prevented this painful incident." I give my condolences to Jordan for the loss of my family and my family. He is my sinner: for we are God, and we are unto Him. "

It is noteworthy that search and rescue operations and inspection to date to find missing persons, despite the roughness of the region and the abundance of rain and the floods and the associated silt and dust, and the occurrence of some landslides in the region has hindered the search and combing.

The participating teams were able to rescue 35 people, describing their condition as medium to minor, while 21 were recovered.