Jordan’s interior minister details arrest of three church attack terrorists

• Interior Minister Mazen Al-Farraya said intelligence and operational efforts led to the identification and tracking of the three perpetrators.
• Security forces located them inside a building near the original attack site in Karak Governorate.

Jordanian Interior Minister Mazen Al-Farraya announced on Monday that security agencies had successfully concluded the pursuit of those responsible for the terrorist attack targeting the church in the village of Hamoud in Karak Governorate.

Al-Farraya said extensive and precise operational and intelligence efforts conducted around the clock to identify the perpetrators and monitor their movements early on led to the success of their efforts.

He revealed that the attack was carried out by three individuals whose identities had been fully established from the beginning of the incident. Security and military agencies subsequently expanded the scope of their investigations and imposed tight security cordons across Karak Governorate to narrow the suspects' movements and prevent them from escaping or going into hiding.

These efforts enabled special raid teams to accurately locate the three individuals hiding inside a building in the governorate, near the original site of the incident.

Al-Farraya confirmed that the three individuals were arrested following an armed confrontation in which they offered fierce resistance in an attempt to evade justice. Security forces apprehended all three after they sustained serious and severe injuries to various parts of their bodies.

He said security forces handled the operation professionally, preventing further damage or casualties among the raiding personnel. The three individuals were immediately transferred under heavy security to receive medical treatment and undergo the necessary judicial investigation procedures.

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