Security ⁠officer killed in stabbing attack in Jordan’s capital

Assailant stabbed a corporal outside the Sri Lankan embassy in Amman, killing him and injuring another officer. A Jordanian security officer has been killed and another wounded in a stabbing attack outside the Sri Lankan embassy in the capital, Amman. Jordan’s Public Security Directorate (PSD) named the officer killed in Thursday’s attack as Corporal Jawad Ali Khalaf al-Salaita, a member of the diplomatic security unit assigned to guard the embassy. In a statement, PSD spokesperson Colonel Amer al-Sartawi said a man surprised and stabbed the victim with a sharp object on Medina al-Munawwara Street at 12:20pm (09:20 GMT). A patrol then intervened. Al-Salaita was taken to hospital but died of his wounds.

Authorities have described the attack as a “cowardly terrorist act”. Jordan’s state-run Al-Mamlaka TV reported that the assailant attempted to seize the weapon of the security officer who was killed. A second security officer intervened to stop him, and both the assailant and the second security officer sustained injuries, it added. Security forces cordoned off a wide area around Medina al-Munawwara Street, a busy main road in west Amman. Al Jazeera’s Tamer al-Samadi said the attack was carried out in full view of passers-by. Security sources told Al Jazeera that the attacker, born in 1994, stabbed al-Salaita in the neck while he was inside a guard booth protecting