Jordanian official says all prison hostages released

Inmates at a Jordanian prison released the last three of about half a dozen police officers they had taken hostage and ended a riot that broke out over the fate of two convicted al-Qaida killers.

Maj. Gen. Owad al-Khalidi, the assistant director general of the public security directorate, announced the end of the prison rioting and hostage taking on Jordan Television, saying it “is over".