Second child reportedly shot by her father dies

AMMAN — An eight-year-old girl, who was reportedly shot by her father before he committed suicide late Sunday night, died on Wednesday, official sources said.

The child, who was brain dead, was reportedly shot with her mother and two siblings, aged 13 and 5, by her 42-year-old father while at his in-laws' home in Rujm Al Shami area in south Amman.

The 32-year-old mother died in the shooting incident, while the three children were rushed to a nearby hospital where they were listed in critical condition.

The five-year-old died on Monday.

“There is only one child left in hospital. Her situation is critical,” a senior official source told The Jordan Times.

The couple was going through marital problems, and the woman returned to her family’s home and wanted a divorce, official sources have said.

On Sunday night, the sources said, the husband went to his in-laws house “claiming that he wanted to grant his wife a divorce and wanted her to give him the family book”.

The husband took the family book from his wife then grabbed a gun and shot her once in the chest because she insisted on the divorce, the sources told The Jordan Times.

The husband then reportedly chased his children and “shot them at close range in the head and face then placed the gun in his mouth and shot himself”, a judicial source said.