Three tourists, a security man and a tour guide were stabbed today in the Jordanian city of Jerash. According to the newspaper "opinion" Jordanian.

The newspaper quoted a spokesman for the Public Security Directorate as saying that a person assaulted, at noon today, by a knife, on tourists and tourist guide and a non-commissioned officer from the PSD when trying to arrest him.

He said the injured were hospitalized in Ivory Coast, adding that the assailant was arrested immediately and investigations were under way.