Security ⁠officer killed in stabbing attack in Jordan’s capital

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State media reports that the assailant and a 2nd information serviceman sustained injuries.

One idiosyncratic has been killed ⁠and different wounded successful a ‌stabbing onslaught successful Jordan’s capital, Amman.

Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said that a subordinate of its forces was assaulted with a crisp entity and died “in a cowardly violent attack” connected Thursday.

Jordan’s state-run Al-Mamlaka TV reported that the assailant attempted to prehend the limb of the information serviceman who was killed.

A 2nd information serviceman intervened to halt him, and some the assailant and the 2nd information serviceman sustained injuries, Al-Mamlaka added.

It said that ‌the attacker had been ‌arrested.

The Public Security Directorate said a preliminary probe indicated the attacker had been “planning to perpetrate the violent enactment against the officers of the General Security Directorate”.

Al Jazeera’s analogous successful Amman reported that aft the attack, the injured information serviceman was transported to infirmary with the injured assailant, portion authorities began investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.

The Sri Lankan Embassy successful Amman said that the onslaught took spot successful its vicinity, the Associated Press quality bureau reported.

The onslaught comes weeks aft gunmen opened occurrence during a ceremonial astatine a religion successful confederate Jordan, sidesplitting 9 radical and wounding dozens more.

It was not instantly ⁠clear if the stabbing was ⁠related to the religion attack.

Jordan’s King Abdullah said connected Monday that “terrorists” would not ‌be allowed to endanger the country’s unity and security, aft the deadly ‌church ‌attack prompted Jordanian strikes successful Syria.

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