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Jordan executes 15 prisoners including 10 terrorists

Xinhua, March 4, 2017 Adjust font size:

Jordan on Saturday executed 15 prisoners, including 10 convicted of terrorism charges, the state-run Petra news agency reported.

Jordan's Minister of State for Media Affairs Mohammad Momani said ten of the prisoners executed were involved in terrorism plots and attacks.

Some of these executed were involved in plotting a terrorist attack in Irbid in the north of the governorate.

One of those executed was convicted of killing several intelligence department officers last year.

A man who last year killed leftist Christian writer Nahed Hattar was also among those executed.

The executed include those involved in attacks on the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad in 2003, on tourists at the Roman amphitheatre in the capital Amman in 2006.

The minister said all prisoners executed are Jordanians and that they were hanged at a jail located to the south of the Jordanian capital Amman.

Some of those killed were convicted of rape, murder and sexual assaults, according to the minister. Endit