Two gunmen are seen wearing informal garments and brandishing pistols, with a 3rd carrying a protracted gun, earlier than they open fireplace on the church from an entrance on the road and cost forwards.
“A terrorist group has carried out a horrific act, one that’s condemned in each respect, and the safety providers are working around the clock to trace them down,” Inside Minister Mazen Al-Faraya informed a press convention.
“Jordan has been focused by a terrorist assault carried out by a gaggle of extremists.”
He mentioned the perpetrators had “completely no connection in anyway to human values” and it “solely serves to strengthen the Jordanians’ resolve … to fight and battle terrorism in all its types”.
Mohammed Al-Khalayleh, minister of awqaf, Islamic affairs and holy websites, mentioned “the sanctity of locations of worship is inviolable and any violation of that is unacceptable on non secular, ethical and nationwide grounds”, calling nationwide unity “a pink line that should not be crossed”.
Prime Minister Jafar Hassan ordered a three-day interval of nationwide mourning from Friday, with flags to be flown at half-mast over authorities and public establishments.
“HEINOUS”
A witness informed Al-Mamlaka the gunmen fired repeatedly for 5 minutes earlier than fleeing the scene.
Between 150 and 200 individuals have been in and across the church on the time, the witness mentioned, including that many of the victims have been aged between 50 and 70.
Karak is dwelling to a major Christian neighborhood within the Muslim-majority kingdom, the place Christians make up between two and three % of the inhabitants.
“We’re completely sure that Jordanian society will stay impervious to each darkish, extremist ideology, and that this legal act is way faraway from – and alien to – the reasonable Islam of our nation,” it mentioned.
