17 killed, injured in raid to arrest Jordan blast perpetrators

CAIRO – 11 August 2018: A policeman was killed and 16 others were injured on Sunday in a security raid to arrest suspects in a terrorist blast that occurred in Jordan yesterday.

The raid targeted the perpetrators at a building in Naqab Al Dabour district in northern As-Salt city in Balqa governorate, west of Amman, according to local media.

An explosion hit the building as the police were searching the site, Al Ghad newspaper quoted local security sources as saying, adding that an exchange of fire occurred.

Yesterday's blast left one policeman dead and others injured.