iStock/Thinkstock(AL-JAFR, Jordan) — A U.S. service member was killed Friday and two others were critically injured after their car approached the gate to King Faisal military base in Jordan, according to a U.S. military official.
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.
The wounded U.S. service members were medevaced to King Hussein Hospital in Amman, the U.S. military official told ABC. Their condition was unknown.
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