Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - After reports said Jordanian and Syrian forces exchanged gunfire in the border region early Friday morning, dozens of Jordanian staged a protest in front of the Syrian embassy which located in Abduon area west of Amman.

The demonstrators called on the Jordanian government to expel the Syrian diplomatic mission from Jordan in respond.


The security forces cordoned off the area and set up metal barricades outside the embassy to prevent protesters from proceeding to the Syrian mission.

Friday early in the morning the Syrian forces opened fire on a group of refugees escaping to Jordan, injuring several, including a child who was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in Ramtha, government spokesman Samih Maaytah said to Ammon News