British women die in Jordan bus crash

TWO British women were killed when their bus overturned in Jordan, the Foreign Office confirmed yesterday.

The pair died along with three Iraqi women while taking part in a UN-sponsored training course, according to local police.

The bus is understood to have crashed as it was travelling along a narrow road in a hilly area overlooking the Dead Sea.

Iraq's science and technology minister Raed Fahmi and 27 others were also injured in the accident near a tourist site close to the Dead Sea, police said.

The Iraqi minister's injuries were "slight" and he is in stable condition in an Amman hospital, a spokesman added.

The Foreign Office and the British Embassy in Amman confirmed the deaths, but declined to give other details about the victims.