Seven killed in raid on Jordanian ‘terror cell’

Four members of the Jordanian security forces and three suspected terrorists were killed during a raid on a militant hideout after an officer died in a bomb blast near the capital, a government official said yesterday.

Five suspects were also arrested during Saturday’s raid in connection with the home-made bomb that exploded under a patrol car at a music festival. A joint unit of special forces, police and army troops raided a house in the town of Salt, north-west of Amman, in search of a suspected “terrorist cell”.