According to Jordan’s Public Security Directorate, security forces identified the three suspects early Monday while they were concealed in an abandoned house in Karak. The suspects resisted surrender, exchanged gunfire with security personnel, and were eventually apprehended after being wounded, the directorate announced in a statement disseminated via state media.
No security personnel sustained injuries, and investigators recovered several firearms and rounds of ammunition from the suspects following their arrest.
‘Terrorism has no place among us,’ the directorate stated, noting that the suspects faced the consequences of their actions.
The Public Security Directorate has not disclosed the suspects’ affiliations nor indicated whether they were linked to any terrorist organization.
Jordanian authorities described the assault as the work of extremist terrorists, though they have not yet established whether the perpetrators are connected to any known groups, either domestically or abroad, and no claim of responsibility has been made.
Interior Minister Mazen al‑Faraya announced on Monday that authorities are examining the factors that drive youth toward extremism and will hold accountable anyone found to have taken part in the attack.
King Abdullah, a strategic US ally in combating Islamist terror groups, has instructed security forces to respond with an iron fist to this rare attack on Jordan’s Christian minority.
Such violence is uncommon in Jordan, a relatively stable Middle Eastern nation that has reportedly thwarted multiple Islamist militant plots in recent years.
