Jordan officers killed in attack at Baqaa camp near Amman

Such attacks on security forces in Jordan are rare

Five people have been killed in an attack on Jordanian intelligence officers at a Palestinian refugee camp near the capital, Amman, government officials say.

They described the incident, rare in Jordan, as a "terrorist attack". Three of the five people killed were intelligence officers, the officials said. The attack took place at the sprawling Baqaa camp north of Amman at about 07:00 local time (04:00 GMT).


The Baqaa camp was one of six set up in 1968 for Palestinian refugees fleeing the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a result of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.