Jordan Church Attack Survivor Says Assailant Pointed Handgun at Him
The United States embassy reported increased security across public sites following the attack that wounded 40 people, according to officials searching for the unidentified assailants.
- A survivor of the shooting at the Greek Orthodox Hamoud Church in Jordan’s Karak governorate said one of the assailants pointed a handgun at him and opened fire from about two metres away.
- Nasser al-Burqan, a lawyer attending his relative’s funeral, initially mistook the gunfire for an exploding air conditioner before realising that an attack was underway.
- Burqan said he saw two attackers, one masked and the other unmasked, after the shooting subsided, while shattered glass left cuts and blood on his face.
- His son, who was also attending the funeral, sustained a gunshot wound to the leg and received treatment at a hospital.
- Jordanian authorities described the attack as an act of extremist terrorism, while security forces continued searching for the gunmen and tightened security at shopping centres, foreign embassies and other locations.
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Eight killed and 40 injured after gunmen open fire at church funeral in Jordan
Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, authorities said. The shooting took place at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 90 kilometers (55 miles) south of the capital, Amman.
It aggravates the balance of the attack perpetrated yesterday against the Greek Orthodox church of St. George in Hammoud, in the governorate of Karak, in the south of Jordan. One of the wounded died due to the injuries reported, announced the Minister of Health, Ibrahim Al-Bdour. The number of victims therefore rises to eight. Al-Bdour also stated [...] The article Jordan, the victims of the attack on the Orthodox church go up to 8. Hezbollah: "…
Still under the shock of the attack, which on 23 October struck the Greek-Orthodox Church of St.Georges in Hamoud (Governorate of Karak), killing at least 8 and wounding some 40 people... Article Eight dead and forty wounded in an attack in a church in Jordan: the authorities call for unity appeared first on Current Values.
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