Amman – The Jordanian Armed Forces said in a statement that many Jordanian border guards were killed on Tuesday at dawn in a booby trapped car explosion.
It said in Amman that the explosion occurred near the“ no man’s land” between Jordan and Syria at 5:30 a.m. local time, killing and injuring the officers.
The forces said that the army engaged with many enemy vehicles and destroyed them at the same time.
It said that more than 50,000 Syrian refugees are stranded at the no man’s land, as Jordan discovered a large number of them were members of the terrorist Islamic State or supporters and majority of them came from areas under the control of the terrorist movement in Syria.
Since 2011, the Jordanian army foiled many attempts by terrorists to infiltrate into Jordan. (Xinhua/NAN)
