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The State Security Court in Jordan on Sunday issued its decision to execute three people accused of carrying out the attack on a church in the village of Hammoud in the Karak Governorate in the south of the kingdom, which led to the death of nine people and the injury of dozens last month.
The criminalization list included: “Performing terrorist acts, possessing weapons and ammunition with the intention of using them to carry out terrorist acts, and promoting the ideas of a terrorist group.”
This judicial ruling issued by the State Security Court is considered distinguishable and distinguishable by law before the Court of Cassation.
Jordanian Public Security forces were able to find the gunmen four days after the attack, as they were hiding in an abandoned house in Karak Governorate.
According to the Public Security statement at the time, the suspects refused to surrender themselves and opened fire on the security forces, who responded to the sources of fire, which led to their injury and subsequent arrest.
How did the attack happen?
On the afternoon of Friday, October 23, gunmen opened fire inside and outside the Saint George Greek Orthodox Church in the village of Hammoud in Karak Governorate.
Which led to the death of 9 people and the injury of forty who were taken to hospitals in the governorate, including some who were transferred to the capital, Amman.
Public Security described the perpetrators as “extremists who carry takfiri ideology.”
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Basil Al-Barqan, a relative of the victims, spoke to a BBC Arabic team in Karak about the moment he received news of the armed attack.
He said: "We received strange, tragic news about Jordan. We confirmed that it was a terrorist operation because whoever opened fire on a church where a woman's funeral was being held could only be a takfiri terrorist."
Thousands of Jordanians participated in the funeral of the victims in Karak and Amman.
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