Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - A Jordanian security officer who was shot and injured during the recent wave of protests and riots against government policies died of his wounds on Thursday.

1st Lieutenant Faisal al-Su'aidat of the Gendarmerie forces was shot by unidentified assailants in the southern governorate of Karak during a wave of protests and violent riots that erupted following the government's decision to raise fuel prices.

On Thursday, and after weeks of treatment at the Intensive Care Unit, Al-Su'aidat succumbed to wounds he sustained during clashes in Karak.

Al-Su'aidat became the second police officer to have died as a result of the protests, less than a week after police corporal Ahmad Maqableh died on Friday of wounds he sustained when assailants fired at a police prescient in Shafa Badran district in Amman during the wave of riots.