Irbid Governor: All Irbid roads leading to Ajloun are closed

Arab Weather - The hobby of playing with snow led to the trapping of dozens of citizens in their vehicles on the Irbid Ajloun Road in the area between the Arhaba Triangle and the Abyan Rock Triangle, which prompted the Governor of Irbid, Radwan Al-Atoum, to take a decision to close the road in coordination with the Governor of Ajloun and the Security Commander of the Northern Region.
Al-Atoum told the Jordan News Agency, Petra, that the vehicles that were suspended due to the accumulation of snow, even if they were suspended in an administratively subordinate area to the Ajloun governorate, but their owners live in the governorate of Irbid, and their hobby for playing with snow led them to risk and reach the areas where it accumulated in Ajloun, which led to their being trapped inside their vehicles. .
He stressed that the emergency mechanisms and teams operating along the road linking the governorates of Irbid and Ajloun are working to evacuate vehicles trapped between the snow and return those who are in them to their areas of residence, calling on citizens not to take risks and to reach areas where snow accumulates and accumulates in areas far from the main roads.
The governor Al-Atoum stated that all roads in the governorate are clear, with the exception of some secondary roads in the northern Al-Mazar district and parts of the Bani Ubaid and Al-Koura districts, and work is underway to open them after the completion of the opening of the main and vital roads.
The governor Al-Atoum pointed out that the Naima-Samta-Sakhra road and the Ajloun-Barqash road were also closed to prevent adventurers from hikers from reaching the snow accumulation areas in Ajloun and to ensure that the work of opening the main and secondary roads was not hindered, which he confirmed that some of them are carefully walked, as is the case in the roads. Sub-branch in Al-Mazar Al-Shamali, Samad, Arhaba and Barash.
Al-Atoum explained that the concerned agencies and emergency teams dealt, through the main operations room in the governorate and the subsidiary rooms in the administrative units, during the past twenty-four hours, with a number of cases of rainwater gathering and their raids on some homes, causing collapses in the walls of some homes in the Bani Ubaid and Ramtha districts.
He noted that the Irbid Electricity Company dealt with a quick response to power outages in some areas in the Northern Al Mazar District, especially in the town of Samad, while the Ministry of Agriculture cadres dealt with cases of falling trees on the campuses of a number of public streets in the provinces of Koura, Northern Shrine and Bani Ubaid.
Al-Atoum pointed out that the cadres of public works, municipalities, public security, civil defense and the Shared Services Council have made continuous efforts to maintain public and necessary services for citizens, including emergency cases, securing the transfer of kidney patients to hospitals, and rescuing a number of people trapped in the state of Bani Ubaid, the northern shrine and Koura, with the active contribution of the Jordanian Armed Forces. While the Yarmouk Water Company dealt with dozens of cases of floods from the sewage manholes in coordination with the municipalities, noting that these cases were mostly caused by irregularities connecting rain water to the sewage manholes.

Source: Jordan News Agency - Petra