Jordan’s Public Security Directorate announced this morning that, following an armed confrontation, it arrested all the perpetrators of the terrorist attack on the Karak church, wounded, inside an abandoned house.
Today, Monday, 26 of October 2026, Jordan’s Public Security Directorate said in a statement published by the official Petra News Agency that, in a joint security operation, they managed to arrest all three terrorists who carried out the terrorist attack on the Karak church, wounded, after an armed confrontation took place between them, without any injuries being recorded among the security forces.
The statement said that the search and inspection operation had continued from the time the crime was committed until dawn today, when the hideout of all three perpetrators of the attack was located inside an abandoned house in Karak Governorate.
Jordan’s Public Security Directorate explained that the suspects had barricaded themselves inside the house and refused to surrender, and began firing at the security forces. Therefore, the rules of engagement were followed against them until they were apprehended. It also indicated that, after the site was searched, a number of weapons and ammunition belonging to the three terrorists were seized.
