A Jordanian policeman Monday shot dead two US instructors and a South African before being gunned down at a police training centre east of the capital, a government spokesman said.

A Jordanian policeman Monday shot dead two US instructors and a South African before being gunned down at a police training centre east of the capital, a government spokesman said.

Mohammad Momani said the assailant, who was not identified, also wounded two other American instructors and four Jordanians before he was shot dead by police colleagues.

A security source had said earlier that the gunman killed himself.