Jordanian border guards killed five people as they approached the country's border from Syria, AFP reported Sunday (June 11th).
An army statement said that in an incident in the previous 72 hours, nine cars had first approached the border from Syria.
The cars were forced to turn back, but a short while later a pick-up truck and two motorcycles returned in the direction of the Jordanian border, the statement said.
The guards opened fire, killing five people and destroying their vehicles, it said.
In a separate incident, two others were arrested for trying to cross the border from Syria illegally, the army said.
On June 3rd, border guards foiled an attack on the frontier with Syria and killed gunmen riding motorcycles who tried to overrun their positions.
It said the armed men on motorcycles, who belonged to "terrorist groups", tried to attack the border guards at the Rukban border crossing on the Jordanian side of the frontier.
