One Jordanian killed, one Israeli wounded at Israeli embassy in Jordan

Skyline of a part of the Jordanian capital, Amman [Salah Malkawi / Anadolu Agency]

One Jordanian was killed and two people were wounded, including an Israeli, in a shooting incident on Sunday in a building within the Israeli embassy complex in Jordan’s capital Amman, a police statement said.

It said two Jordanian men working for a furniture firm had entered the embassy before the shooting. The dead Jordanian was killed by a gunshot, while the two wounded people were taken to hospital, the statement said.

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