Two senior Palestinian security officials killed in Jordan bombing

  • 12/15/2022
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Ramallah, West Bank, Nov 10, SPA -- Two high-ranking Palestiniansecurity officials, a senior Palestinian banker and thecommercial attache at the Palestinian embassy in Cairo diedin the bombings in Jordan, the Palestinian envoy to Ammansaid on Thursday. Maj.-Gen. Bashir Nafeh, the head of military intelligencein the West Bank, and Col. Abed Allun, a high-rankingPreventive Security forces official, were killed in theattack at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Ambassador Attala Kheritold The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Jihad Fatouh, the commercial attache at the PalestinianEmbassy in Cairo, and Mosab Khorma, deputy Chairman ofCairo-Amman Bank in the Palestinian territories, were alsokilled in the three nearly simultaneous suicide bombings onU.S.-based hotels in the Jordanian capital on Wednesdaynight, Kheri said. Officials say 57 people were killed and 115 were wounded.--SPA1041 Local Time 0741 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/301622

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