Three sentenced to death over Jordan church attack

A Jordanian court sentenced three men to death by hanging for a gun attack on a Greek Orthodox church in the south of the country. The 23 October assault killed nine people and wounded 25 during a funeral, shocking Jordan, where Christians make up about three per cent of the population.

The men, two brothers and their relative by marriage, fled after the attack and were arrested three days later, authorities said. The State Security Court convicted them of terrorist attacks resulting in death, weapons offences, conspiracy to commit terrorist acts and promoting a terrorist organisation’s ideas.