Twenty people died and another 30 were hurt on Saturday in a bus crash on the road between the Jordanian capital and the northern city of Irbid, a police spokesman said. "A bus collided with another heavy vehicle on the Amman-Irbid road, resulting in 20 people dead and 30 injured," Major Mohammed Khatib told AFP.

The state-run Petra news agency said the bus, coming from the Red Sea port of Aqaba in southern Jordan, collided with a water tanker on a main road from Jerash to Irbid. Witnesses told Petra that the two vehicles plunged into a valley next to the main road after the collision and that "corpses were scattered all over the area."

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