Missile from Syria damages Ramtha house

AMMAN — An “errant” missile from Syria landed on a house in the border city of Ramtha on Friday without harming anyone.

Irbid Governor Saad Shihab said the missile landed on an empty house and made a hole in its ceiling, with “minimal” damages to property.

The last missile to strike Ramtha, some 90km northwest of Amman and a few hundred metres away from the Jordanian-Syrian border, was around two months ago, Shihab told The Jordan Times on Saturday.

“Thank God no one was injured,” he said, adding that such incidents are not as frequent nowadays as they used to be over the past few years.

One person was killed and four were injured this June when a shell from the Syrian town of Daraa hit a house in Ramtha.

In August, six Ramtha residents, all from one family, were injured when a shell from Syria fell in the yard of their house.

The border crossing in Ramtha has been closed for nearly four years, and is currently only used to transport assistance to the war-torn country.

In addition to Ramtha, home to more than 100,000 residents and a large number of Syrian refugees, the northern villages of Amrawah, Shajarah and Turrah are adjacent to the southern Syrian towns of Tal Shihab, Zeizoun and Heet.