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Jordan security officer killed near Sri Lanka embassy

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Source : Perth Now news

A Jordanian security officer has been killed and another wounded in a stabbing attack in Amman near the Sri Lankan embassy, Jordan’s Public Security Directorate says, adding that the suspect had been arrested.

Preliminary investigations indicated that the attacker had intended and planned to carry out a “terrorist attack” against public security personnel, the directorate said.

Less than two weeks earlier, on October 23, gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan’s Karak governorate, killing nine people and wounding 40 in a rare attack on the country’s Christian minority.

It was not immediately clear if the stabbing was related to the church attack.

Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Monday that terrorists would not be allowed to threaten the country’s unity and security after the deadly church attack prompted Jordanian strikes in Syria.