<span style="color: #222222;">Flash floods in Jordan have killed at least seven people in the ancient city of Petra,  Nearly 4,000 tourists have been evacuated. Rescue teams and helicopters are searching for five people whose car was swept away in Madaba, south-west of the capital, Amman.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Downpours also triggered a state of emergency in the port city of Aqaba. It comes two weeks after 21 people, mostly children, drowned in a flash flood in the Dead Sea area.</span><br />''  <br />