AMMAN, Jordan (Agence France-Presse) — The remains of a Jordanian distantly related to the royal family, who was killed last week in an attack in Afghanistan, were repatriated on Saturday and received by King Abdullah II, Queen Rania and other members of the royal family.

The attack victim, Capt. Ali bin Zeid, was killed “on Wednesday evening as a martyr while performing the sacred duty of the Jordanian forces in Afghanistan,” the official news agency Petra said.

The agency provided no further details about Captain Zaid’s death.

The officer’s family said that he was killed in an attack on Wednesday, but the precise circumstances in which he died remain unclear.

The authorities in Amman, the capital, have never confirmed the presence of Jordanian troops in Afghanistan.

The officer’s family said that Captain Zeid, who carried the title “sherif” that is bestowed on members of the royal family, had been in Afghanistan for 20 days and had been due to return home on the day he was killed.

A suicide bombing attack at a C.I.A. outpost in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border killed seven operatives of the agency on Wednesday and wounded six others, the C.I.A. said.

The attack, for which the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani Taliban separately claimed responsibility, took place at Forward Operating Base Chapman in Khost Province.