{"id":3484,"date":"2026-10-23T16:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=3484"},"modified":"2026-10-23T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T16:03:08","slug":"jordanian-government-spokesperson-says-6-killed-28-wounded-in-church-shooting-in-karak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/?p=3484","title":{"rendered":"Jordanian government spokesperson says 6 killed, 28 wounded in church shooting in Karak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">JERUSALEM &#8212; <\/span>Jordanian government spokesperson says 6 killed, 28 wounded in church shooting in Karak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">THIS IS AN APNewsAlert. Check back for updates. AP&#8217;s earlier story is below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Gunmen opened fire inside a church in Jordan on Friday, causing a number of deaths and injuries, the kingdom\u2019s law enforcement agency said. Authorities didn\u2019t immediately provide a death toll. <\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The shooting took place at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 180 kilometers (110 miles) south of the capital, Amman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Security services were investigating the shooting, government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said in a statement. Karak is home to a minority Christian population.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">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 the gunmen after a long standoff.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.com\/US\/wireStory\/jordanian-government-spokesperson-6-killed-28-wounded-church-137507162\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM &#8212; Jordanian government spokesperson says 6 killed, 28 wounded in church shooting in Karak. THIS IS AN APNewsAlert. Check back for updates. AP&#8217;s earlier story is below. Gunmen opened fire inside a church in Jordan on Friday, causing a number of deaths and injuries, the kingdom\u2019s law enforcement agency said. Authorities didn\u2019t immediately provide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1newslive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}