{"id":24612,"date":"2026-10-24T12:32:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/jordan-karak-funeral-attack-death-toll-rises-to-8\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T12:32:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T12:32:16","slug":"jordan-karak-funeral-attack-death-toll-rises-to-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/24\/jordan-karak-funeral-attack-death-toll-rises-to-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan health minister says death toll in Karak funeral attack rises to 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan&#8217;s health minister on Saturday said the death toll from an attack on mourners at a funeral in Karak province had risen to eight. The attack took place on Friday at a church in the south of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Al-Bedour said in remarks broadcast by Al-Mamlaka television that one of those injured in the attack remained in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Jordan&#8217;s public security director had said seven people were killed and 27 others wounded. The terrorist incident has drawn widespread reaction, and Jordan&#8217;s prime minister has declared three days of mourning.<\/p>\n<p>Flags have been ordered to fly at half-mast at ministries, government departments and public institutions in memory of the victims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan says eight people were killed in an attack on mourners at a funeral in Karak province, with one injured person still critical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}