AMMAN, Nov 9: At least 23 people were killed and scores wounded on Wednesday when three suspected suicide bombers blew themselves up in three hotels in Amman, a security source said.
The dead were reported at the luxury Radisson SAS and Grand Hyatt hotels, usually packed with foreigners, where some 100 people were wounded. The other strike hit the Days Inn hotel.
A bomb exploded at the entrance of the Grand Hyatt killing at least 10 people, security sources told AFP.
Eight others were killed when a bomb hidden behind a plant exploded in the Philadelphia ballroom of the Radisson SAS where a wedding reception was under way, the sources told AFP.
The Grand Hyatt and the Radisson SAS lie about one kilometre from each other and are located in an upmarket of the city, until now seen as one of the most stable capitals in the Arab world.
It was not immediately known if there were casualties at the Days Inn hotel, a three-star establishment in Rabiyeh neighborhood where the Israeli embassy is located.
“Three terrorist operations targeted the Radisson SAS, the Grand Hyatt and the Days Inn hotels,” Major Bashir al-Daajeh told the Petra news agency, in what the agency said was the first official reaction to the attacks. — Agencies
