iStock/Thinkstock(AL-JAFR, Jordan) — Three U.S. service members were killed Friday after their car approached the gate to King Faisal military base in Jordan, according to a U.S. military official.
One U.S. service member was killed at the scene. Two others, who had been medevaced to King Hussein Hospital in Amman with critical injuries, died at the hospital, the official said.
Jordan’s state-run Petra news agency, which originally reported that two U.S. trainers had died, said the car failed to comply with orders to stop at an entrance and gunfire erupted.
In a statement on Facebook, the Jordanian military said a Jordanian Air Force officer was also injured in the gunfire outside the base in the southern city of Al-Jafr.
An investigation by the Jordanian military is underway to determine the cause of the incident.
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