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After church attack in Jordan: suspected attackers arrested
Three days after the attack on churchgoers in southern Jordan, the country reports a successful investigation. Three suspected perpetrators were caught at dawn. more...
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kna | Jordanian security forces have arrested three gunmen suspected of involvement in the deadly attack on a church in southern Jordan's Karak province. The men were found in an abandoned house in the province on Monday morning, the Jordanian Law Enforcement Directorate (PSD) said, according to a report by the state news agency Petra.
The suspects resisted arrest and engaged in a firefight with security forces, in which all three were injured. The authorities did not provide any details about the identities of those arrested.
Jordan had sworn that the terrorists would not go unpunished, King Abdallah II commented on the arrest on Platform X. “No advocate of dark ideologies that divide Jordanians will be tolerated.”
“Jordan is avenging the blood of its martyrs,” wrote government spokesman and Minister of Government Communications Mohammed al-Momani on X. There is no place for terrorism in Jordan.
Unknown perpetrators shot at participants in a funeral in the Orthodox church of Hamoud on Friday, killing 9 people and wounding over 30 others.