Lebanese Officer among Wounded in Jordan Shooting
A Lebanese officer was among those who were wounded Monday when a Jordanian policeman opened fire at a police academy in al-Muwaqqar, Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported.
It identified the officer as 23-year-old Internal Security Forces lieutenant George Hazzouri, saying he sustained "very light injuries."
Earlier in the day, Jordanian government spokesman Mohammed Momani confirmed that a “Lebanese citizen” was among the wounded.
Two U.S. instructors, a South African and a Jordanian were killed in the incident, Jordanian officials and the U.S. embassy in Amman said.
The shooter, identified as police captain Anwar Abu Zeid, also wounded two American instructors and four Jordanians in the attack at the Jordanian International Police Training Center.
Momani said that the assailant was gunned down by colleagues at the center in al-Muwaqqar, 30 kilometers east of Amman.
An investigation is underway to determine the motive for the shooting, he added.
The three foreign instructors killed were on contract with Jordanian police, Momani said.
"He has no ties with any terrorist organization like Daesh," a source close to the family told AFP, using an Arabic acronym for the jihadist Islamic State group.
"The family is in shock and security forces are questioning them about the incident," said the source, who declined to be named.
The English-language Jordan Times quoted a relative of the assailant as saying he was a 28-year-old father of two from the northern village of Rimun.
He was known in his hometown as "a very kind person, who is religious but moderate," the relative who declined to be named told the paper.
Y.R.
Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet
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