Baku-APA. The Jordan Armed Forces on Monday killed one person and injured three others who tried to illegally cross into Jordan from Syria, the state-run Petra news agency reported, APA reports quoting Xinhua.
The Jordanian border guards engaged in a shootout with the four armed men, the army forces said.
The victims were taken to a medical center near the borders for treatment and later handed over to the concerned authorities.
In 2013, the army said it arrested about 1,595 persons who tried to illegally cross the Syrian borders into Jordan.
Meanwhile, it said the smuggling of weapons across the Jordanian-Syrian borders rose by 300 percent in 2013 compared to that of in 2012, seizing about 900 weapons, six million drug pills and 24 vehicles smuggled from Syria into Jordan.
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