Amman street briefly closed after partial collapse of house wall

AMMAN — The partial collapse of a wall surrounding the yard of a 50-year-old house in Jabal Amman resulted in a rock slide, though without any injuries or damage, a municipality official said Wednesday. 

Raed Haddadin, the head of the construction monitoring department at the Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), said GAM officials partially closed the street briefly as a precautionary measure, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.

GAM also contacted the Jordan Water Company (Miyahuna) to fix a sewage pipe which serves some houses in the area, the municipality official noted.

Haddadin said GAM and the administrative governor will work to safely rebuild the wall.

Over the weekend, three buildings collapsed in east Amman’s Jabal Al Jofeh area, due to a damaged sewage network in the neighbourhood, according to families who were evacuated from the residences before the collapse.

Authorities were initially notified last Thursday that part of a residential building in Jabal Al Jofeh had collapsed. 

Reports said a young engineer from the area saw cracks in one building and called the Civil Defence Department (CDD), and then managed to convince residents to evacuate shortly before the first building collapsed. 

The CDD evacuated hundreds from the surrounding buildings, with the help of police and social development officials.

On Tuesday, a landslide on the road connecting Amman and Irbid resulted in the closure of the highway connecting the northern and central governorates.

The Public Security Department announced the complete closure of the road connecting the two governorates from Nuaimeh Bridge (Arab Contractors), south of Irbid, to the capital, due to the  landslide in the Zarqa River area.