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A British family are among dozens of travellers ‘abandoned’ in Jordan after Wizzair cancelled their Amman-London flight less an hour before take-off when Iran launched its drone and missile attack on Israel on Saturday night.

The Deweys from Bristol, fear they could be stuck in a war zone for weeks as the low-cost carrier has stopped services in and out of Jordan, and is not booking passengers on flights with alternative airlines.

Jon Dewey, his wife Sam, and their sons Gabriel, 23, and Jem, 18, had been visiting his 21-year-old daughter Joely, who is studying Arabic at a language school in the middle eastern state, over the Easter holidays.

But the family were ‘shepherded’ – along with other Wizzair passengers - into Amman airport car park on Saturday night, after Jordan closed its airspace, and watched as Iranian drones and missiles were shot down overhead.

Now the family are battling to find seats on any flight back to UK – at huge expense - before Israel mounts a retaliation attack on Iran.

Jon, 57, told the Mail: ‘We’ve been in Jordan visiting my daughter Joely who is studying Arabic and is on a six month placement in the country from the University of Manchester.

‘We had a wonderful time travelling around Jordan which is a beautiful country – visiting the ancient city of Petra, the Dead Sea and the Wadi Rum desert oasis.

‘We were meant to be travelling home on Saturday [13th April] when our Wizzair flight was cancelled.

‘We had checked in and had passed through security and then less than an hour before take-off there was an announcement that the flight had been cancelled. There was no explanation.

‘We looked at our phones and saw that Iran had launched its drone strikes on Israel.

‘We were shepherded into the car park to wait for transport to take us to a hotel and we had a clear view of the aerial bombardments.

‘We all stood there watching the burning debris as drones were shot out of the sky.