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WEDNESDAY, JULY 09, 2025
Three Mexicans, one Swiss wounded in stabbing at Jordan tourist spot

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Reuters
06 November, 2019, 11:25 pm
Last modified: 06 November, 2019, 11:26 pm

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Three Mexicans, one Swiss wounded in stabbing at Jordan tourist spot

Four of those injured had moderate to serious wounds and the others light ones

Reuters
06 November, 2019, 11:25 pm
Last modified: 06 November, 2019, 11:26 pm
A tourist, who was injured in a stabbing, is rushed into King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan November 6, 2019. Reuters/Muhammad Hamed
A tourist, who was injured in a stabbing, is rushed into King Hussein Medical Center in Amman, Jordan November 6, 2019. Reuters/Muhammad Hamed

Three Mexican tourists and one Swiss were wounded along with four locals in Jordan on Wednesday when a man went on a stabbing rampage in Jerash city, a major tourist destination near ancient Roman ruins, Jordan's minister of health said.

Four of those injured had moderate to serious wounds and the others light ones, Saad Fayez Jaber told Reuters. He gave no further details.

Police said the suspect was 22-year old Mohammad Abu Touaima who lived in a makeshift home on the edge of the city near a poor Palestinian refugee camp where unemployment was rife among many of the youth in the area.

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"I was about to have a heart attack," the suspect's father, Mahmoud, 56, told Reuters television. "My son was a loser and his mind was twisted, but he was scared of even slaughtering a baby chick. I am shocked he did this."

Videos posted on social media showed a bleeding woman lying on the floor and another panic-stricken woman in a blood-stained T-shirt.

Sources had earlier mistakenly said three of the wounded tourists were Spaniards. Video of the incident showed victims speaking Spanish with Latin American accents.

Jerash is famed for its Roman ruins. Jordan has seen a surge in tourism in the last two years and is considered by tour operators as one of the safest tourist destinations in the Middle East. It has rarely seen attacks on foreign tourists.

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