Alwaght- Three US troops were killed when security forces opened fire at a truck approaching the gate of a military base in Jordan on Friday.
The initial news reported only one fatality but the two other had died of their injuries in the hospital, an unnamed US official said.
He said "A total of three US service members died today (Friday) in the incident in Jordan. Initial reports were that one was killed, two injured. The two injured service members were transported to a hospital in Amman, where they died.”
A vehicle carrying the troops did not stop at the entrance of the al-Jafr military base, south of Jordan, and the guards opened fire.
The incident also left a Jordanian army officer wounded.
A Jordanian military source also said "There was an exchange of fire at the entrance to the base after an attempt by the trainers' vehicle to enter the gate without heeding orders of the guards to stop."
The US embassy in Jordan confirmed the shooting in a statement saying "we have reports of a security incident involving American personnel and we are in contact with Jordanian officials who are giving us all the support.”
The incident comes about a year after a Jordanian police officer shot dead two US government contractors, a South African trainer and two Jordanians at a US-funded police training facility near Amman, the capital of Jordan, before being killed in a shootout.
Jordan is a key ally of the United States and an active part of the so-called US-led coalition against the ISIS terrorist group. The US uses Jordanian airfields to station warplanes for its campaign in Syria.
