{"id":3899,"date":"2019-12-06T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2019-12-06T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T17:12:20","slug":"jordan-farm-fire-pakistanis-die-as-blaze-sweeps-through-makeshift-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2019\/12\/06\/jordan-farm-fire-pakistanis-die-as-blaze-sweeps-through-makeshift-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan farm fire: Pakistanis die as blaze sweeps through makeshift homes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thirteen Pakistani nationals, including eight children and four women, have died in a fire at a farm in Jordan, the civil defence department (CDD) has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fire swept through corrugated iron sheds housing labourers at the farm in South Shouna, a rural area west of the capital Amman, early on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three other people were injured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Petra news agency cited the CDD as saying&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/petra.gov.jo\/Include\/InnerPage.jsp?ID=20644&amp;lang=en&amp;name=en_news\">it believed the fire was caused by an electrical short-circuit<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-37011859\">Jordanian reversal on Syrian work permits<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-14631981\">Jordan country profile<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz expressed his condolences to the people and government of Pakistan, and called for an expedited investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two families had lived in the makeshift buildings used as housing for immigrant labourers, according to the CDD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thousands of migrant workers are employed by private farms in the Jordan Valley, many of them housed in poor accommodation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirteen Pakistani nationals, including eight children and four women, have died in a fire at a farm in Jordan, the civil defence department (CDD) has said. The fire swept through corrugated iron sheds housing labourers at the farm in South Shouna, a rural area west of the capital Amman, early on Monday. Three other people were injured. The Petra news&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/2019\/12\/06\/jordan-farm-fire-pakistanis-die-as-blaze-sweeps-through-makeshift-homes\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/middleeastandnorthafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}