AMMAN: Jordanian prosecutors have accused a suspect with two terrorism-related offences after a stabbing attack in Amman last week that killed one police officer and wounded another. The State Security Court’s attorney general, Brig. Gen. Military Judge Ahmed Talat Shahaltough, said the suspect was charged under Jordan’s 2006 Anti-Terrorism Law with carrying out an armed terrorist act resulting in death and carrying out an armed terrorist act.
The matter has been referred to the State Security Court for trial, the Jordan News Agency said Wednesday. The allegations relate to an incident on Nov. 5 on Madina Munawara Street in which Cpl. Jawad Al-Salayta was stabbed to death while on duty near the Sri Lankan embassy in Amman. Another officer, Capt. Firas Al-Ananzeh, was shot in the face while trying to arrest the attacker, who was apprehended after a battle with a police patrol.
Preliminary investigations showed that the suspect was going to target security officers, Jordan’s Public Security Directorate stated. The event came roughly two weeks after a previous attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak governorate on Oct. 23 that killed nine people and wounded scores.
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