Jordan’s Public Security Directorate says officers wounded and arrested the three at an abandoned house in Karak on 26 October, bringing the suspects into custody.
Jordanian security forces arrested three suspects on 26 October in connection with the church-funeral shooting that killed nine people and injured 40 in Karak governorate. Police later named the detainees, and 27 people injured in the attack remained in hospital on 26 October.
Jordan’s public security director, Major General Abdullah al-Maaytah, named the suspects as Hazza Zaidan Mohammed, Meshal Zaidan Mohammed and Ahmad Sami Hussein at a press conference on 26 October. He described them as two brothers and their brother-in-law, Al Jazeera said.
A senior Jordanian security official said there was no indication that the suspects had ties to other groups.
Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said officers found the suspects hiding in an abandoned house in Karak. It said the three refused to surrender and attacked officers, who returned fire, wounded them and arrested them. No security personnel were injured, and firearms and ammunition were found in the suspects’ possession. Reuters carried the directorate’s account in a dispatch published by Armenpress.
The shooting took place during a funeral at St George’s Greek Orthodox church in Hamoud on 23 October. Before the arrests, authorities were searching for the gunmen.
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