Two persons killed while trying to sneak to the west of the Jordan river

The Jordanian border guards killed two persons and wounded other two while trying to sneak to the west of the Jordanian river.

The Jordanian minister of information Nabil al-Sharif said in a statement yesterday that four persons tried to sneak to the area situated west of Waqqas town in the northern valleys to the other side of the Jordanian river yesterday at dawn, but the border guards cordoned the persons and a fire was exchanged and resulted in killing two of them and wounding other two.

Al-Sharif indicated that several machineguns and large amounts of ammunition were found after the area was inspected. No other details were given.