Six soldiers killed and others wounded after car
bomb explodes near Syrian refugee camp of al-Rukban, officials say.
At least six
Jordanian soldiers were killed after a car bomb exploded near the country's
border with Syria, Jordanian officials said.
The attack early
on Tuesday in the al-Rukban district opposite a Syrian refugee
camp, which houses about 70,000 people, was part of a coordinated attack
involving multiple vehicles.
Officials told
Al Jazeera that bombs exploded in the buffer zone between the Jordanian border
and the camp, in the desolate desert area.
No group
immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
"Six
soldiers have been martyred and 14 others were wounded in the terrorist
attack," an official told the AFP news agency, speaking on condition of
anonymity and adding that it was a "preliminary toll".
Jordan's state
TV described the incident as a "cowardly terrorist attack".
The army said in
a brief statement that "several of the attacking vehicles were
destroyed".
The attack came
two weeks after five Jordanian intelligence agents were killed when a gunman
stormed the General Intelligence Directorate office in Ain el-Basha near
Palestinian refugee camp of al Baqa'a.
No information
on the motives or affiliation of the attacker has been released by the
Jordanian authorities.
The Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) controls large areas in
neighboring Syria and Iraq, and Jordan has fortified border defences to prevent
attacks and infiltration attempts.
Jordan has also
widened a crackdown on ISIL sympathizers at home, jailing hundreds in the past
two years for promoting the group's ideas on social media.
The kingdom is a
member of the US-led international military coalition against ISIL.
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