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One dead in attack on Jordan security patrol
AMMAN, Aug 11, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – A member of Jordan’s security forces died
and six were wounded when a bomb exploded under a patrol car at a music
festival near Amman, the interior ministry said Saturday.
The blast hit a security patrol in Al-Fuhais, 12 kilometres (8 miles) west
of the capital on Friday evening, it said.
“It killed Sergeant Ali Adnan Qawqaza and wounded six other members of the
patrol,” the ministry said, adding that an investigation was underway into
the cause of the blast.
Security forces had been deployed to protect the town’s annual festival,
which hosts prominent Arab music acts.
Jordan has played a key role in the US-led coalition fighting IS in
neighbouring Syria and Iraq, using its air force and allowing coalition
forces to use its bases.
The kingdom was hit by a string of jihadist attacks in 2016, including a
suicide bombing in June that killed seven guards near the border with Syria
that was claimed by IS.
Months later in December a shooting rampage, also claimed by IS, killed 10
people including a Canadian tourist.
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