"The explosion happened the moment we entered the wedding hall."

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http://www.leadingthecharge.com/stories/news-0097818.html

Jordan bomb turns wedding into bloodbath

AMMAN - Ashraf al-Akhras was celebrating his wedding with friends and family when a bomb tore through the luxury Amman hotel, killing 10 of his relatives and turning the banqueting hall into a scene of despair instead of joy.

Akhras‘s father and nine other family members died in one of Wednesday‘s closely synchronised attacks on three hotels in the Jordanian capital that killed a total of 57 people.

"I was getting married, it was my wedding," the distraught groom told Reuters.

"The explosion happened the moment we entered the wedding hall."

Security officials say over 250 festively dressed guests were celebrating in the banquet room on the ground floor of the Radisson SAS hotel when a young man wearing an explosive vest blew himself up in the crowded hall.

"We tried to save as many lives as we could ... But I lost my father, my father-in-law and several friends as well," Akhras, 32, said.

This is just horrible.