BEIRUT, October 24. /TASS/. A Jordanian woman who sustained injuries during a terrorist attack on an Orthodox church in Al-Karak has died in a local hospital, the kingdom’s Health Ministry reported. According to the ministry, this brings the death toll from the terror attack to eight.
Health Minister Ibrahim Al-Baddour stated that 27 injured people remain in medical facilities. "Eight of the wounded have been transferred to the Prince Ali bin Al-Hussein Military Hospital. Doctors assess the condition of two of them as critical," he noted.
According to the Al Mamlaka television channel, Jordanian security services have not yet managed to apprehend the members of the terrorist cell that carried out the attack on the church. The search for the perpetrators is ongoing. Security measures have been tightened in Amman and other cities.
On Friday, three terrorists opened fire near the St. George Orthodox Church in the Hammoud area of the Al-Karak Governorate. The attack, which took place during a funeral, left eight people dead and 34 injured.
King Abdullah II of Jordan personally visited the victims in hospitals and vowed to respond to the terrorist raid with an "iron fist.".