Seven killed and 40 injured after gunmen open fire at church funeral in Jordan
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Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a church in Jordan on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, authorities said.
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The shooting took place at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 180km (110 miles) south of the capital, Amman.
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Footage broadcast on Jordanian state television showed two gunmen who appear to be holding pistols approaching the church and firing shots. A third man who appears to be holding a semiautomatic rifle then approaches and opens fire, and all three then run toward the church.
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Video footage taken by witnesses shows broken glass and pools of blood on the floor of the church.
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Dorgham Halasa, who was among the mourners inside the church, said intense gunfire erupted 15 minutes after the funeral had started, and then people started running. “It was a weird situation, and heavy gunfire,” Halasa said.
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He did not see the gunmen, but said other people reported seeing four of them. The Associated Press could not independently verify the number of assailants, and Jordan’s security services did not immediately release details.
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A government statement said that the attack was “carried out by unknown assailants,” but didn’t say whether any gunmen were captured or killed. It said that “investigations are under way at full speed”.
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Jordan declared three days of national mourning, according to the kingdom’s Petra news agency.
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Karak is home to a minority Christian population.
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In 2016, gunmen ambushed police in a series of attacks in Karak, including at a Crusader castle popular with tourists, killing 10 people, including seven officers, and wounding dozens. Jordanian security forces killed those gunmen after a long standoff.
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Jordan’s health minister Ibrahim al-Budour said two of those wounded are in critical condition.
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King Abdullah II said on X that Jordan “will confront the terrorist act that targeted Karak with the harshest penalties” and offered his “deepest condolences to the families of the martyrs, and our wishes for recovery to the wounded”.
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Jordan’s prime minister Jafar Hassan said during a security meeting in Karak on Friday evening that the attack was a result of terrorist ideology and blind extremism. He said the assailants will be punished and legal measures taken against those who seek to introduce extremism.
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Condemnation of the slayings came from around the region, including from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Oman.
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Ahmed al-Tayeb in Cairo, the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim world’s foremost religious institution, offered his condolences to the families of victims in Friday’s shooting, calling it a “heinous terrorist attack.” Iraqi foreign minister Fuad Hussein called his Jordanian counterpart and “affirmed Iraq’s solidarity with Jordan in the face of terrorism”, Hussein’s office said in a statement.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the attack during a funeral as “especially heinous,” spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said.
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“The secretary-general also calls for all those responsible to be found and to be held to account.”
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