Attack on a church in Jordan: three men sentenced to death
The attack occurred on October 23 during a funeral service at a Greek Orthodox church.
Jordan's State Security Court sentenced three men to death for carrying out an attack on a church in the country's southern Karak governorate that killed nine people. Reuters reported this.
The defendants were found guilty of committing terrorist acts resulting in death, storing weapons and ammunition for terrorist purposes, as well as promoting the ideology of a terrorist group. The verdict may be appealed, and in addition, it will be mandatorily reviewed by the Court of Cassation.
The attack occurred on October 23 during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Hamud. Armed individuals opened fire on those gathered. As a result, nine people died and another 34 were injured. This incident became one of the rare attacks against the Christian minority in Jordan.
On October 26, Jordanian security forces detained three suspects following a shootout at an abandoned house in Karak. During the shootout, all of them were wounded, and there were no casualties among security service personnel.
On the same day, Jordan carried out airstrikes against groups believed to be linked to the church attack in southern Syria. Syrian officials reported that seven people, including three children and one woman, died as a result of the strikes.
Later, Jordan acknowledged that civilians had died in Syria as a result of its airstrikes. On November 9, it became known that the two countries had agreed to establish a joint security committee to investigate the incident and its consequences.
