At least four police officers and a suspect were killed after an armed clash on the outskirts of Karak city, in the south of Jordan, after security forces stormed an apartment.
Two of the suspects were arrested after the battle waged this Tuesday in the village Wesya, a crash that came just after the group of so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for Sunday's attacks in a populated tourist destination Karak.
Sources have told "Al Jazeera" n the suspects were part of the list of fugitives, but that had no connection with the attackers involved in the attack on the castle of Karak. Tuesday's developments in Wesya are reflected in a video posted on social networks.
The exchange of fire took place just hours after ISIS announced that "the Caliphate 4 soldiers" armed with machine guns and hand grenades carried out the attack Sunday in the Crusades-era castle, which left 10 people dead.
"We promised the countries of the Crusaders something worse and more serious, if God allows us," reads the statement of ISIS, referring to the countries of the Islamic State led by the United States.
Jordanian officials declined to identify the attackers, being enough to call them "terrorists of outlawed". Security sources said that they were all Jordanian nationals. 7 security officers, two bystanders and a Canadian tourist were killed in attacks that also left 34 injured.
Salamah Hamad, interior minister of Jordan, said Monday that at least 5 generations of suicide bombers were found, along with a quantity of ammunition, automatic weapons and explosives in a cellar of a house in the deserted city of Qatranahut, 30 km northeast of Karak.
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