A SENIOR POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN JORDAN

DURING CLASHES OVER HIGH FUEL PRICES

In Jordanian city of Maan due to high fuel prices clashes arises that spread to several cities across the kingdom, with demonstration during which a senior police officer has been killed.

On Thursday, while dealing with the “rioting” the officer was shot in the head, police said.

“We will strike with an iron fist anyone who tries to attack lives and property,” the police statement added.

Earlier a police source said the officer was shot by unknown person during clashes in the Husseiniya area of Maan. Four other policemen were injured, the source said.

A long convoy of armored vehicles was seen entering in Maan as reinforcement were sent to the neighborhood where the senior police officer was killed, witnesses said.

In several neighborhood of the city and in the populated industrial area of Zaraa, northeast of the capital, Amman youth had clashes with police, witnesses said.

Tyres were burned by youths on a main highway between the capital and the Dead Sea, disrupting traffic, witnesses said.

In the north of the country near the border with Syria, youths clashed with police in several neighbourhoods in Irbid, the country’s third-largest city by population.