The Public Security Department (PSD) on Wednesday announced the arrest of three men involved in the deadly shooting of two police officers in Irbid a day earlier.
On Tuesday, Captain Jamal Darawsheh and Corporal Usama Jarawreh, were in their patrol vehicle near the Samma intersection to the west of Irbid, some 80 kilometres north of Amman, when unidentified assailants reportedly fired bullets at their vehicle.
Jarawreh, who was driving the vehicle, was injured by the bullets, which caused him to lose control of the car and so it hurled down.
A statement issued by the PSD media office said one of the suspects was a brother of a man from the village of Samma who was killed in shootout with police early October when police was trying to arrest him for alleged vandalism of an Islamic cemetery in the northern town.
The other two men were a friend and a cousin of the main suspect, who planned the attack against the police patrol car, the statement said.
