UNITED NATIONS (Sputnik) – The UN Security Council (UNSC) has condemned the terrorist attack in Jordan that killed six soldiers and security personnel and injured 14 others earlier this week.
"The members of the Security Council strongly deplored the heinous and cowardly terrorist attack on a Jordan Armed Forces’ Border Guard post near the Syrian and Iraqi borders with Jordan, on 21 June 2016, which resulted in 6 soldiers and security personnel killed and 14 injured," the Security Council said in a Thursday statement.
The Jordanian Armed Forces said at least six guards had died and 14 were wounded in a car bomb attack near a refugee camp hosting Syrians at the Rukban border post on Tuesday.
The Russian Foreign Ministry condemned the deadly Tuesday attack on the Jordanian-Syrian border on Wednesday and affirmed its anti-terrorist support to Amman.
Jordanian Ambassador to Russia Ziad al-Majali said in May that Jordan did not rule out deploying troops to ward off Daesh militants from the border with Syria.
