Nine British pilgrims on a tour in Jordan have been killed in a bus crash.
The tourists, all thought to be elderly, were near the ancient city of Petra when their coach had a tyre blow out and hit a pick-up truck before somersaulting into the air.
The Britons were on the sixth day of an eight-day tour to Jordan organised by Christian tour operator Pilgrim Travel of Deal, Kent. They had spent two nights in Petra and were travelling on the dual carriageway Desert Highway between Wadi Rum and Madaba.
Three Jordanians were killed, including the driver of the bus and driver of the pick-up truck.
Pilgrim Travel was, in its own words, founded to "provide a unique personal service to leaders and pilgrims travelling on pilgrimages and sharing holidays to places of Christian interest".
The Prince of Wales, who is touring the Middle Eastern kingdom, visited survivors of the accident who were being treated in the King Hussein Medical Centre in the capital Amman.
AP