The Kingdom of Jordan channel announced, A second gas leak occurred in the Aqaba region The Jordanian government injured a number of civil defense personnel who were clearing the area of poisonous gas.
The Jordanian channel said that the diameter of the area affected by the second leak is 20 meters, stressing that the area was evacuated once more.
Jordan TV announced that the number of victims of the gas leak in Aqaba has risen to 13 and 251 injured, following it had just been 11 dead.
For its part, the Jordanian army announced sending a team from the chemical support group to cleanse the site of the leakage of toxic gas in Aqaba regionThe Jordanian forces closed the accident area in the port of Aqaba by the Southern Military District and the Royal Naval Force, and prepared a field hospital in Aqaba to receive the cases.
For his part, Minister of State for Media Affairs, official spokesman for the government, Faisal Al-Shboul, confirmed that all those who were at the site of the gas leakage accident in the port of Aqaba were evacuated.
