Jordan arrests 44 after deadly fuel protests

AMMAN, 18 December 2022, (TON): The country’s security agency said “Jordan has arrested dozens of people accused of involvement in protests against rising fuel prices in which a senior police officer was gunned down.”

Col. Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police chief of Maan province, died of a gunshot to the head in the town of Al-Husseiniya while confronting what the authorities called riots.

Public Security Directorate said in a statement “forty-four people who participated in the riots in a number of regions in the kingdom have been arrested and they will be brought before courts.”

It said reinforcements had been sent to the provinces, and accused “vandals and outlaws” of being behind violence in Maan, in the country’s south.

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