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| Jordan gunman fires on tourists | Jordan gunman fires on tourists |
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| A gunman has opened fire on foreign tourists in the centre of the Jordanian capital, Amman, reports say. | A gunman has opened fire on foreign tourists in the centre of the Jordanian capital, Amman, reports say. |
| Security sources quoted by the AFP news agency say a lone attacker shot at tourists near the Roman amphitheatre in central Amman. | |
| Reports say that the gunman wounded five people, four tourists and a policeman, before he was overcome and detained by security forces. | |
| The nationality of the tourists caught up in the incident is not yet known. | |
| Sixty people were killed in a series of suicide attacks on hotels in the Jordanian capital in November 2005. | Sixty people were killed in a series of suicide attacks on hotels in the Jordanian capital in November 2005. |