Jordan is speeding up procedures to bring to trial the man charged with shooting to death a British tourist and the wounding of six others at a popular Roman ruin in the capital, Amman, judicial officials said today.

An Iraq-based Muslim militant group today praised a Jordanian gunman for shooting foreign tourists visiting a popular Roman ruin in Amman, according to a message posted in its name on the internet.

British tourist Karen Sparke, who was wounded in a gun attack near Amman’s Roman amphitheatre was discharged from a hospital today as the US Embassy warned its citizens to stay away from the area of Jordan’s capital.

A BRITISH man was killed and two British women injured when a gunman opened fire on tourists in Jordan yesterday.

A lone gunman from the hometown of the killed al-Qaida in Iraq leader opened fire today on Western tourists visiting the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre.