Jordan says 3 police officers killed amid unrest over fuel prices
Three officers were killed and five others injured as police forces hunted a man suspected of killing a police colonel last week.
Jordanian police said on Monday that three officers and a suspect were killed in a shootout in the southern city of Maan as protests spread across Jordan over fuel prices.
The shootout, which led to the injury of five additional officers, took place during a raid as police searched for a man suspected of killing another officer last week.
The suspect was killed on the spot and nine others were arrested on suspicion of belonging to an Islamic extremist group with "takfiri ideology," the Associated Press reported.
What it matters: This is the second such incident in less than a week. A senior police commander was shot and killed last Thursday. In a statement, the Public Security Directorate identified the officer killed as Col. Abdul Razzaq al-Dalabeh.
