Jordan arrests 3 church shooting suspects after 'fierce' firefight
At least nine people were killed in Friday's attack in the Karak region.
LONDON -- Jordanian security forces on Monday arrested three suspects in connection to Friday's deadly attack on a Greek Orthodox church in the Karak region, the country's Public Security Directorate announced.
Jordanian officials said that the suspects were identified and tracked to an abandoned house in the village of Al-Jadeeda in the Karak region, around 2 miles from the village of Hamoud where gunmen attacked the St. George church last week.
At least nine people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in the attack, which occurred around 75 miles southwest of the capital Amman and took place during a funeral service.
A Jordanian government spokesperson said the suspects barricaded themselves in the house and refused to surrender, initiating a firefight with security forces.
Interior Minister Mazen Al-Faraya told reporters that all three suspects sustained "serious injuries" in what he described as a "fierce" firefight, with no casualties reported among security forces.
Jordan's Public Security Directorate said that firearms and ammunition were recovered from the site.
Faraya said that all three suspects are Jordanian nationals and that "there are no indications" of any contact or affiliations between those arrested and "outside parties."
In a post to X, Jordan's King Abdullah II said, "We vowed the terrorists would not escape punishment, and no proponent of dark ideologies that divide Jordanians will be tolerated."
ABC News' Nadine Shubailat and Ghazi Balkiz contributed to this report.
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