Jordanian forces kill 12 at Syria border, seize narcotics
Jordanian border guards have killed 12 alleged infiltrators attempting to enter the kingdom from neighboring Syria and injured several more in an armed border battle with 36 people, the army said.
An official with the country’s armed forces general command stated on Saturday that the fighting took place when the group, some of them armed, tried to cross into Jordan from Syria, adding that Jordanian forces also confiscated over two million pills of narcotics during the face-off.
The official did not mention any casualties on the side of the Jordanian guards.
According to the kingdom’s military website, Jordan regularly intercepts smugglers attempting to cross into the country, noting that following the Saturday incident, several of the infiltrators fled back into Syria.
The armed battle was reportedly the deadliest such incident on Jordan-Syria border in recent memory.
Officials, however, did not elaborate on the exact location of the shooting battle.
This is while Jordan’s eastern border remains a key crossing route for Syrian refugees fleeing the foreign-backed conflict in their native country with nearly 17,000 people stranded in the area awaiting admittance.
Meanwhile, the Western-backed Arab kingdom persistently invokes concerns over Takfiri terrorists infiltrating Syrian refugee groups in a bid to justify its refusal to accept them.
According to press reports, Amman has only been allowing a few dozen Syrians to cross its border daily amid rigorous identity checks.
UN figures indicate that Jordan hosts over 600,000 of more than four million Syrian refugees that have been forced to flee their country since the foreign-sponsored terror campaign began there in 2011.
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