JOrdania has carried out air strikes on what the Jordanian army described as the terrorist organisation in Syria in response to last week’s attack at a Christian funeral, where nine people were killed.
Syrian health officials reported to state media that from the attack on a village in the southern province of Daraa were killed five people — among them women, children and an elderly man.
Meanwhile, Jordan announced that its fighter planes had killed and wounded several terrorists, without providing further details, reports the report. BBC, broadcast I did. tv
Jordan claimed the attack had been co-ordinated with the Syrian government, but Syria said it had not been announced in advance of Monday’s attack.
After the attack, Syrian authorities announced the closure of the border crossing with Jordan.
The decision includes the complete suspension of the circulation of travellers and goods in both directions, aimed at ensuring the safety of travelers and employees at the border crossing, said a statement by Syrian authorities, broadcast by state media.
According to the statement, Syrian authorities have opened direct channels of communication with Jordanian officials and have launched comprehensive investigations to whiteen the full circumstances of the attack.
Nassib is the only border crossing between Jordan and Syria for the flow of travelers and goods.
Earlier Monday, senior security officials in Jordan announced that security forces had arrested two brothers and their brother – in – law suspected of the attack on the church.
Jordan’s Public Security Directorate revealed that the suspects, whom it described as terrorists, were found hiding in an abandoned house in Karak before dawn.
Jordan’s Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya told state-related television that the suspects were Jordanian citizens and that they had taken refuge in a building in one of the villages near where the attack occurred.
The gun attack occurred Friday at a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, where nine people were killed and 34 others injured.