AMMAN - A Jordanian embassy driver was killed on Thursday when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle at a petrol station in the Iraqi capital before driving off with it, government spokesman Nasser Jawdeh said. “A Jordanian embassy car was the target of gunfire from armed men who wounded the Iraqi driver Jamal Salman Russen who had stopped at a petrol station to fill up,” Jawdeh told state-run Petra news agency.Passersby rushed the wounded driver to hospital where he later died of his injuries, Jawdeh said, adding that the gunmen seized the vehicle and fled with it to an undisclosed location.
“The Jordanian government is following up on this incident with the concerned parties in Iraq,” Jawdeh added.