A Jordanian court has sentenced three men to death by hanging over the October terrorist shooting at a Greek Orthodox church funeral in Karak that killed nine people.
AMMAN: A Jordanian court on Sunday sentenced three men to death by hanging over a deadly church shooting, as the kingdom’s Christmas celebrations were cancelled in solidarity with the victims’ families.
Gunmen killed nine people and wounded 25 others when they stormed a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in southern Hammoud village, Karak governorate, on October 23.
Authorities said three men, two Jordanian brothers and their relative by marriage, had fled after the attack and were arrested three days later. They described them as followers of a hardline Islamist ideology.
