Urgent: Shooting at a church in Karak Governorate, southern Jordan, results in deaths

Local Jordanian media reported that unidentified gunmen opened fire inside a church in the Karak Governorate in southern Jordan, leading to a number of deaths and injuries.

The semi-official Al-Mamlaka Channel reported, according to a source, that “at least seven people died in the shooting attack on the Hamoud Church in Karak, and approximately 10 of them were critically injured.” "Gunmen got out of a vehicle and opened fire during a funeral procession from Hamoud Church in Karak."

For its part, Public Security warned in a statement “against circulating any information about the shooting incident at a funeral in Karak Governorate and adherence to the official statements issued on a regular basis, and under penalty of legal accountability,” according to what was reported by the official Jordanian news agency, Petra.

The agency also quoted the Minister of Government Communications, the official government spokesman, Muhammad Al-Momani, as saying in a post on social media, that “the security services are following up on the ground a shooting incident in Karak Governorate.”

Al-Momani added, "Statements with the information will be issued once verified, calling on everyone to allow the security services to take the required measures and obtain information from their official sources."