Horses bolt from Jordan royal stables as fire grips surroundings
Horses bolt from Jordan royal stables as fire grips surroundings
Video shared on social media purportedly showed at least a dozen horses galloping down the main road linking the city of Salt to the Jordanian capital, bringing traffic to a skidding halt.
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The horses escaped after a blaze broke out near the stables west of Amman [Lola L Falantes via Getty-archive]
A band of horses escaped royal stables and galloped down a main road in Jordan on Sunday, according to local reports.
The horses escaped after a blaze broke out near the stables in Al-Hamr, west of Amman.
A video shared on social purportedly showed at least a dozen horses galloping down the main road linking the city of Salt to the Jordanian capital, bringing unsuspecting cars to a halt.
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The fire destroyed a number of houses, a civil security source told Jordan News. Tankers and a helicopter were brought in to extinguish the blaze, the source said.
The fate of the horses is not yet known.
The royal stables were established in the 1950s and hosts scores of Arabian horses. The stables are directed by Princess Alia, sister of King Abdullah.
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