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Tourist and police killed in Jordan after gun attack
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GUNMEN killed seven people in southern Jordan yesterday including a Canadian tourist and police officers. Security forces were still searching for the unidentified attackers.
The shootings took place in Karak, a tourist destination known for one of the biggest Crusader castles in the region.
Jordan’s general security department said four policemen, a female Canadian tourist and two Jordanian civilians were killed in a series of shootings.
Several others were reported wounded.
The first attack took place when a police patrol went to check on a fire that had broken out in a house in Karak, the department said.
“Unknown gunmen who were inside the house opened fire on the patrol, wounding a policeman, and then fled by car,” it said in a statement.
“Shortly afterwards, gunmen opened fire on another patrol without causing any casualties,” it added.
At the same time, gunmen holed up in the castle opened fire on the Karak police station, “wounding several policemen and passers-by” who were rushed to hospital, the statement said.
“Police and security forces have surrounded the castle and its vicinity and launched an operation to hunt down the gunmen,” the statement said, adding that the search for the attackers was still under way.
A senior security source said some people were trapped in a lower floor of the citadel when the gunmen took shelter there, but denied media reports that they were being held as hostages.
The Jordan Tourism Board described the Karak citadel, which dates back to the 12th century and has withstood many sieges, as a “maze of stone-vaulted halls and endless passageways.”
The general security department statement said “five or six gunmen” were thought to be involved in the shootings.
However, Prime Minister Hani al-Malki, who was addressing parliament at the time of the shootings, said that “special forces and policemen are surrounding 10 gunmen holed up inside the Karak citadel.”
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