Jordanian officer dead after Syria border clash with gunmen

AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s subject said Sunday that an service serviceman was killed successful a shootout with smugglers connected the country’s bluish borderline with Syria.

A Jordanian subject website said Capt. Muhammad Yassin Musa al-Khudayrat was killed and 3 others were injured erstwhile a radical of smugglers opened occurrence connected borderline guards.

It said the attackers fled into neighboring Syria and “large quantities of narcotics were seized and transferred to the competent authorities.”

The Jordanian subject said that it would “deal with each unit and firmness with immoderate infiltration oregon smuggling effort to support the borders and forestall those who effort to tamper with Jordan’s nationalist security.”

Jordan shares a agelong porous borderline with its bluish neighbor, and is location to much than 650,000 Syrian refugees who fled the civilian warfare that has raged for much than a decade.

In September, Syrian and Jordanian officials discussed borderline information aft Syrian authorities forces captured rebel-held areas on the Jordanian frontier.

In October, Jordan’s King Abdullah II spoke with Syrian President Bashar Assad for the archetypal clip successful a decennary aft the 2 countries reopened a cardinal borderline crossing.