Embassy Shooting Leaves 1 Dead
A gunman from Yemen stormed into the Yemeni Embassy on Saturday, killing a diplomat and wounding the man’s assistant.
The attacker was apprehended shortly after the shooting in the heart of the Jordanian capital, security officials said. The suspect was identified as Ahmed Al-Haddad, officials said.
Yihya al-Arousi, an embassy official, told Associated Press that the suspect was angry because the embassy had managed to only obtain part of the money a former Jordanian employer owed him.
The embassy official declined to provide other details, but said the gunman appeared intoxicated during the shooting incident.
The diplomat, Mohammed al-Museibi, was killed by two gunshots--one that hit the main artery near his heart and another that lodged near the liver, the state-run Petra news agency said.
Al-Museibi’s assistant, Fouad Zuheiry, was hospitalized with a “minor wound” in the left arm, Petra said. Zuheiry is a Yemeni citizen, but has no diplomatic status.
Outside the Yemeni Embassy, scores of police sealed off Jebel Amman’s Third Circle--Amman’s commercial district that houses Arab and Western embassies, as well as government ministries.
The media were not allowed onto the embassy grounds.
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