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Many Jordanian border guards killed in booby trapped car explosion

Xinhua, June 21, 2016 Adjust font size:

Many Jordanian border guards were killed on Tuesday at dawn in a booby trapped car explosion at no man's land in boder area between Jordan and Syria, the Jordan Armed Forces said in a statement on official Facebook account.

The explosion occurred near the Syrian refugees camp at the no man's land between Jordan and Syria at 5:30 a.m. local time, killing and injuring the officer.

The Jordanian army engaged with many enemy vehicles and destroyed them at the same time.

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees are stranded at the no man's land as Jordan discovered a large number of them were members of the terrorist Islamic State or supporters and manjoirty of them came from areas under the control of the terrorist movement in Syria.

Since 2011, the Jordanian army foiled many attempts by terrorists to infiltrate into Jordan. Endit