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Jordan arrests 3 relatives over deadly church attack after shoot-out

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Monday, October 26, 2026 at 1:02 PM · 1 min read
Jordan arrests 3 relatives over deadly church attack after shoot-out — South China Morning Post, Seoul Business news
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Jordanian security forces arrested two brothers ‌and their brother-in-law after a shoot-out on Monday over a church attack that killed nine people, and the suspects appear to have no ties to other cells, senior government security officials said. “God willing, they only represent themselves,” Jordan’s Director of Public Security, Major-General Obeidallah al-Maaytah, said. Such violence is highly unusual in Jordan, a relatively stable US ally in the Middle East, and Friday’s attack on the...

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