An April Fool's Day prank in a Jordanian newspaper backfired spectacularly when townspeople panicked amid fear they were under threat of alien attack.
The mayor of Jafr, in eastern Jordan, has said he is considering suing daily newspaper Al-Ghad after it reported that flying saucers flown by three metre-tall space creatures had landed and that communication networks had been severed.
According to the Associated Press, Mayor Mohammed Mleihan alerted the security forces who then combed the area in an unsuccessful hunt for the intergalactic interlopers.
"Students didn't go to school, their parents were frightened and I almost evacuated the town's 13,000 residents," Mleihan told the newswire. “People were scared that aliens would attack them."
The managing editor of Al-Ghad, Moussa Barhoumeh, apologised for the stunt and said that the newspaper was simply having a little fun.
"We meant to entertain, not scare people," he said.
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