Jordan arrests 3 suspects in church attack that killed 9, wounded 40

Three people were arrested in Jordan on Monday in connection with Friday's church attack in the Karak governorate that killed nine people and wounded 40 others.Jordan's Public Security Directorate said security forces tracked down the suspects early Monday while they were hiding in an abandoned house. The suspects refused to surrender and opened fire on the forces, who returned fire and arrested all three after they were wounded.No security personnel were injured in the operation, and firearms and ammunition were seized, the directorate said.The statement did not identify the suspects or specify whether they were affiliated with any militant group.Jordan's interior minister said on Friday that extremists were behind the attack, but added that it was too early to establish whether they had links to known groups inside or outside the country. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.The attack drew condemnation from across the region, including Lebanon, Syria, Egypt and Oman. Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo's Al-Azhar, offered condolences to the victims' families and described the shooting as a “heinous terrorist attack”.Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein also spoke to his Jordanian counterpart, expressing Baghdad's support for Amman. Hussein's office said he “affirmed Iraq’s solidarity with Jordan in the face of terrorism”.United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the attack, describing violence during a funeral as “especially heinous”, his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. “The secretary-general also calls for all those responsible to be found and to be held to account,” Dujarric added.India also strongly condemned the attack. The Ministry of external affairs denounced the killings and expressed solidarity with Jordan, while EAM S Jaishankar offered condolences to the victims' families and wished those injured a speedy recovery.You use AI every day. Now get your AI Quotient. Take the AIQ test.