Jordan says fourth officer succumbs to wounds after storming building

Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghuneimat says a fourth police officer has succumbed to his wounds hours after assailants opened fire and set off explosions that killed four members of the security forces trying to storm a building in Salt, Jordan.

Three officers were killed in the initial raid early Sunday, as were three suspected jihadists whose bodies were pulled from the rubble of the building. Five suspects are in custody.

The Hala Akhbar news website linked to Jordan’s military says the suspects are Jordanians and that the cell had planned to attack security installations and other sensitive targets. The site says the suspects had been armed with explosives, grenades and weapons, and had carried out Friday’s bomb attack at a music festival in the predominantly Christian town of Fuheis, west of the capital of Amman.

— AP