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Man sentenced to death for murder of AND agent
By JT - Dec 02,2020 - Last updated at Dec 02,2020
AMMAN — The State Security Court (SSC) on Wednesday sentenced a man to death by hanging for the murder of an Anti-Narcotics Department (AND) agent in 2017.
Sgt. Mohammad Salameh Saqarat was part of a force that raided a public garden in Zawahreh neighbourhood in Zarqa, around 22km northeast of Amman, when he was shot and killed by the convict, who fled the area.
The SSC sentenced other defendants in the shooting case to temporary hard labour, ranging between 10 and 15 years in prison, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
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