{"id":400666,"date":"2020-09-11T10:52:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T07:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=400666"},"modified":"2020-09-11T10:55:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T07:55:12","slug":"massive-explosion-rattles-city-in-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/massive-explosion-rattles-city-in-jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive explosion rattles city in Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aman <strong>(S0NNA)<\/strong>-A massive explosion rocked the city of Zarqa in Jordan early Friday due to an electric short circuit at an army munitions depot, according to a government spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>Amjad Adaileh told Jordan\u2019s state-run news agency Petra that the blast occurred in a warehouse containing unused bombs.<\/p>\n<p>He said the depot is located in an isolated area far from any settlements, adding there were no immediate reports of casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the Al Ghad daily cited a security official who did not want to be named as saying the blast occurred at an army artillery camp in the al-Ghabawi area of Zarqa, which is located northeast of the capital Amman.<\/p>\n<p>It was reported that security forces were trying to extinguish a fire that broke out after the explosion.<\/p>\n<p>Several videos were posted on social media of the blast.<\/p>\n<p>@<strong>AA<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aman (S0NNA)-A massive explosion rocked the city of Zarqa in Jordan early Friday due to an electric short circuit at an army munitions depot, according to a government spokesman. Amjad Adaileh told Jordan\u2019s state-run news agency Petra that the blast occurred in a warehouse containing unused bombs. He said the depot is located in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-400666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400670,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400666\/revisions\/400670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}