Jordan Sentences Three Men to Death Over Deadly Church Attack

Jordan's State Security Court has sentenced three men to death by hanging for a gun attack on a Greek Orthodox church in the south of the country, the Jordanian military announced on November 15.

The attack took place on October 23 during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Hammoud, in Karak governorate, a province in southern Jordan. Nine people were killed and 25 were wounded, Al Jazeera reported.

The three men convicted are two Jordanian brothers and their relative by marriage. After the attack they fled, and they were arrested three days later.

The court found the three guilty of terrorist attacks resulting in death, weapons offences, conspiracy to commit terrorist acts, and promoting the ideas of a terrorist organisation. The charges were brought under Jordan's legal system, and the sentences were handed down by a court that hears security cases.