Another five buses carrying 250 Jordanians who fled Lebanon to escape Israeli bombardments arrived at the Jordanian-Syrian Jaber border crossing on Thursday, Jordan's official Petra news agency reported.

The buses were being operated by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry in coordination with the Jordanian embassies in Beirut and Damascus, said the report.

Meanwhile, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry announced that six more buses were ready at the Jordanian embassy in Beirut to carry Jordanian nationals back home via Syria.

The ministry has so far transport 1,400 of the estimated 2,700 Jordanians residing in Lebanon back to Jordan by bus.

The mass exodus of Jordanians started last Friday.

Thousands of foreign nationals have been scrambling to flee Lebanon since Israel launched a massive assault in Lebanon following the capture of two Israeli soldiers by the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah on July 12.

Source: Xinhua