Wire reporting: (AP, via NPR)

Gunmen opened fire during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Jordan's Karak governorate on Friday, killing seven people, Jordanian officials said^2,9,15.

The shooting took place at Hammoud Church, also rendered Hmoud, in a region south of Amman that has a sizable Christian community in the Muslim-majority kingdom^2,9,15.

Jordan's public security director, Obaidallah Maaytah, said 34 people were wounded and that 27 of them were receiving hospital treatment^9,15. Wire reports carried by Global News put the wounded at 40, citing Jordanian authorities, and said two of the wounded were in critical condition (AP, via Global News)⁵.

No group claimed responsibility^2,21. Interior Minister Mazen al-Faraya described the attackers as a group of extremists and said security services were working to find them^2,15. King Abdullah II called the shooting a terrorist act and said Jordan would meet it with the harshest penalties^2,9,15.

Accounts of how many gunmen took part differ. BBC-verified CCTV appears to show three armed men approaching the church². Al Jazeera, citing survivors and state television, reported two masked men who left a vehicle and opened fire²¹. A mourner quoted in the AP account said other people reported seeing four gunmen; AP said it could not independently verify the number (AP, via Global News)⁵.

Witness Khalid al-Mdanat told BBC Arabic the attack lasted about 15 minutes, with people trying to flee while shooting continued². Al Jazeera quoted funeral attendee Khaled Burqan as saying one assailant carried a pistol and the other a rifle²¹.

Jordan declared three days of national mourning, Petra News Agency said (AP, via Global News)⁵. The king visited wounded patients in hospital^9,2. Prime Minister Jafar Hassan said the attack stemmed from terrorist ideology and that the assailants would be punished (AP, via Global News)⁵.

The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese in Jordan said the attack would not drive Christians from the land¹⁵. Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun condemned the shooting, as did U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres through a spokesman^9,15.

Such attacks on houses of worship are rare in Jordan^2,9,15. Officials said an investigation was under way; DW, citing Roya News, reported that al-Faraya said authorities had names of suspects but would not disclose them immediately^9,15. Some later headlines listed nine dead; Jordanian officials had earlier revised the toll between six and seven^2,3,4.