Syria War Hits Jordan as Soldiers Killed in Border Attack
- Car bomb exploded early morning near frontier with Syria
- Foreign minister says attack carried out by ‘terrorists’
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A suicide bomber in a speeding, explosives-rigged car struck a Jordanian military post near the border with Syria on Tuesday, leaving six dead and 14 wounded, in the second attack on the kingdom’s security forces this month.
The bomb targeted a forward military post that offers help to Syrian refugees stuck in the no-man’s land separating the countries, the army said in a statement on its Facebook page. The bomber raced toward the post from the Syrian refugee camp as security forces fired at his vehicle, it said.