Lebanon urges joint action to eliminate terrorist threat

The Lebanese Foreign Affairs Ministry strongly condemned Monday the terrorist attack in Jordan, which killed ten people.

The Ministry noted in the statement that the attack "occurred a few days after the attack targeted a Cairo Church and the attacks in Turkey, which proves that the real imminent threat of the moving terrorism and its capability of carrying surprising brutal attacks in more than one field."

The statement stressed "the need to strengthen joint action and consolidate Arab and international cooperation so as to eliminate the ambulant terrorist threat."

Six policemen, three citizens and a Canadian tourist were killed on Saturday in the shooting when a group of unidentified gunmen opened fire at a police patrol near the Karak Castle in the south of Jordan, the report quoted Jordan's Public Security Department. Endit