‘Search under way for suspects who attacked Egyptian worker’

AMMAN — Police are still looking for suspects who attacked an Egyptian worker last week, a Public Security Department (PSD) official said on Sunday.

“The problem started last week when a dispute erupted between a Jordanian and the Egyptian in a tourist restaurant in Amman where the victim works as a security guard,” PSD Spokesperson Lt. Col. Amer Sartawi told The Jordan Times.

The following day, some acquaintances of the Jordanian man waited for the victim as he went to work and assaulted him, Sartawi added.

The victim was hospitalised but has since been discharged, the spokesperson said, adding that he is in fair condition.

“We identified the perpetrators, four suspects, and security personnel are still looking for them,” Sartawi said.

Egyptian media outlets reported that the embassy in Amman was following up on the attack against the guest worker, whom they identified as Ibrahim Darwish.

According to the reports, the suspects forced Darwish, who was on his way to work, to get into a vehicle by threatening him with a gun, and took him to a farm where they attacked him.

Afterwards, the attackers left the victim unconscious on a desert road, thinking he was dead, Egyptian media reported, adding that a passerby found Darwish and notified the police.