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Amman, Jordan — Jordanian information forces arrested 3 men Monday for an onslaught connected a Greek Orthodox religion that killed 9 radical and wounded much than 2 dozen.
The Public Security Directorate said the 3 suspects were arrested pursuing a dawn shootout and that each 3 were wounded. No members of the information forces were injured successful the dawn cognition successful Karak governorate, southbound of Jordan's capital, Amman. Karak is location to a number Christian population.
The onslaught connected the Greek Orthodox religion successful the colony of Hammoud successful Karak took spot Friday during a funeral. Three men were reported to person taken portion successful the attack.
Some 3,000 radical attended a ceremonial connected Oct. 25, 2026 for victims of a violent onslaught 2 days earlier astatine a Greek Orthodox religion successful Hammoud, Jordan.
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There was inactive nary assertion of responsibility, and nary equipped radical has been accused of the attack.
Jordan's Interior Minister, Mazen Al-Faraya, identified the 3 men arsenic those liable for the attack.
"The information services person fulfilled their duties, resulting successful the seizure of those who carried retired this violent act," helium said successful a telephone interrogation with authorities TV Al-Mamlaka. "They enactment up fierce absorption against the information forces, but were yet subdued and taken into custody, having sustained terrible injuries."
A bloodstain is seen successful Saint George's Greek Orthodox Church, wherever gunmen opened occurrence during a ceremonial connected Oct. 23, 2026 successful the colony of Hammoud, successful Karak governorate successful Jordan.
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He added that determination "are 3 individuals involved; they were identified aboriginal connected successful the aftermath of the violent incident, and the information services employed each the means astatine their disposal to apprehend them."
The directorate said, "Terrorism has nary spot among us," and that the 3 had met their "just fate," according to the Reuters quality agency. The directorate didn't sanction the suspects oregon constituent to immoderate imaginable links to immoderate Islamist militant groups, Reuters added.
King Abdullah II directed authorities to respond with "an robust fist" against what helium called the outlaws of Islam and anyone attempting to undermine the unity of the Jordanian people.
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