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Jordan arrests three over church attack: state TV

Photo: United News of Bangladesh (UNB)

Neutral summary

from 5 outlets' reporting

Jordanian security forces arrested three men on Monday over a Friday attack on a Greek Orthodox church in Karak governorate, about 120 km southwest of Amman, that killed nine people and wounded dozens during a funeral. The Public Security Directorate said the suspects were located in an abandoned house and, after refusing to surrender and firing on police, were wounded and arrested in a shootout lasting about three hours; no security personnel were hurt. Director of Public Security Major General Abdullah Al-Maaytah said the suspects were two brothers and their brother-in-law, identified as Hazza Zaidan Mohammed, Meshal Zaidan Mohammed and Ahmad Sami Hussein, and that they had no known ties to other groups. Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya described them as extremist terrorists, and said authorities were reviewing what led young people toward extremism. King Abdullah II ordered an "iron fist" response and a review of security procedures. No group has claimed responsibility. One suspect was reported in critical condition.

Where accounts differ. Death tolls differ: UNB and CNA report nine dead, while Al Jazeera cites eight killed per the Ministry of Health, with the ninth dying later; France 24 names the village as Hammoud and Al Jazeera as Al-Jadeeda for the hideout.

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Jordan nabs three suspects over deadly shooting attack on church

The Times of Israel

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  1. Dawn South Asia Selected above Neutral

    Jordan arrests 3 in dawn raid over church attack

  2. France 24 Europe Neutral

    Jordan arrests three following deadly terror attack on church

    Headline changed 2 times; now Jordan's strikes on Syria over church terror attack kill several civilians 26 Oct, 22:00

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Method. Bias types follow the Table of Media Bias Elements and the Media Bias Taxonomy (both CC BY 4.0). The impartiality rules follow the BBC Editorial Guidelines and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code. The score is calculated from the seven answers, never generated.

What this is not. No outlet gets a standing bias rating, and there is no left/right axis, because that axis does not describe Bangladeshi politics. Each analysis covers one article about one event. Members' analytics count how each outlet's headlines were labelled over a chosen period, with the number of headlines behind every share, and also show the average score of an outlet's scored articles: that average describes those articles (mostly each story's lead), not the outlet, and outlets are never ranked by it or by any share.

Known limits. Headlines are grouped into stories automatically, so an unrelated headline sometimes slips in; it is shown faded rather than hidden. Where outlets carry the same wire copy, the comparison has little to show. Human annotators agree on bias in Bangla news only moderately (κ = 0.574 at best), which limits what any automated score can claim.

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