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Article: 2 lawmen slain in Jordan at riot victim's funeral
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 21, 1989
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AMMAN Two law enforcement agents were shot to death Thursday and
four others were wounded in a gunfight that broke out at the funeral
of a man killed in anti-government demonstrations this week,
residents in southern Jordan said.
That brought the unofficial toll to 10 dead and 34 injured since
protests against new austerity measures broke out in several towns
and cities in southern Jordan on Tuesday.
The government has put the toll at two dead and 18 injured.
Residents of Mazar, a village in the Karak region 75 miles south
of here, said the agents killed Thursday belonged to the Bedouin
security force known as Badiya.