Arrest made for Jordanian 'terrorist attack'

Mahmoud Masharqah was named by Jordanian media as a suspect in the killing of five Jordanian intelligence officers at a security office outside a Palestinian refugee camp close to Amman. The victims included three officers, a guard and a telephone exchange operator. 

He has reportedly been arrested and interrogated in the past at the same office where he allegedly committed the shooting, Al Jazeera says.

He was arrested on Monday in al-Sleihi on the outskirts of the town of Ain el-Basha, not far from scene of the crime.

On Monday, Government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani referred to the assault on the office as a "terrorist attack".

Baqa'a camp, the refugee camp in question, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, where a large percentage of the country's seven million-plus population are descendants of refugees who fled in the aftermath of the creation of Israel in 1948.