Seven killed in armed attack near a tourist site in southern Jordan

Seven people, including one Canadian tourist, today killed near a tourist site in southern Jordan during attacks unidentified armed.

Four policemen, two Jordanian nationals and one Canadian tourist killed and many wounded in a series of attacks in Karak, announced the Jordanian security services.

According to the details of the security services, the first attack took place in the town house by a police patrol which took call for fire. The gunmen who were in the building opened fire on the police and then fled. Some time later, gunmen opened fire on another police patrol while other gunmen who had entrenched themselves in the historic castle town attacked against a police station in Karak "injuring several policemen and passersby."
Subsequently, the police surrounded the castle and the surrounding area in search of the perpetrators of the attacks.
A security source said that for some time people trapped in one of the first levels of the castle when the gunmen found refuge there, but denied the information that was hostage taking.
Just people "afraid to leave when the gunmen exchanged gunfire with the police," explained the source.

The Jordanian security services were for "five to six armed men," but the Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Moulgi said that "special forces and police have surrounded" ten men who are barricaded inside the castle of Karak, described by tour guides as a "labyrinth of vaulted rooms and endless corridors."
Jordan, which has been in the past target Islamist attacks, is a member of the international coalition against the Islamic State carried out airstrikes against jihadists in Syria and Iraq, while hosting coalition forces in its territory.