Jordan carries out deadly strike in Syria in retaliation for church attack
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Syrian officials said five people were killed in the Jordanian strike on a village in the southern Daraa province Jordan has struck what its military says were "terrorist organisations" in Syria in retaliation for an attack on a Christian funeral last week that killed nine people.
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Syrian health officials told state media five people, including women, children and an elderly man, were killed in the strike on a village in the southern Daraa province.
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Jordan said its fighter jets had killed and wounded "several terrorists", without giving further details. Jordan said it had co-ordinated with the Syrian government.
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Syria said it had not been notified of Monday's attack. It comes after a nine people were killed and 34 injured in a shooting at a funeral in a Greek Orthodox church in Karak on Friday.
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Watch: CCTV footage appears to show gunmen near church In response to the strike, Syria said it had closed a border crossing with Jordan.
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"The decision includes the complete suspension of passenger and commercial traffic in both directions, to ensure the safety of travellers and workers at the crossing," Syrian authorities said in a statement carried by state media.
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It added that it had "opened direct channels of communication" with Jordanian officials and had launched "comprehensive investigations to establish the full circumstances of the targeting".
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Nassib is the only passenger and commercial border crossing between Jordan and Syria.
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Earlier on Monday, senior government security officials said Jordanian security forces had arrested two brothers and their brother-in-law over the church attack.
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The Public Security Directorate (PSD) said the unnamed "terrorists" were found hiding in an abandoned house in Karak before dawn.
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Jordan's Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya told state-affiliated TV the attackers were all Jordanians and "had been holed up in a building in one of the villages near the site of the attack".
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