The bad news just keeps on coming in...
Some of his guards were also reportedly killed.
Salim took over on May 1 for a month's tenure as the head of the US-appointed Governing Council, a body which is the subject of fierce criticism by insurgents fighting coalition troops, who accuse it of collaborating with the US-led occupation.
The death has been called a "political assassination" by a spokeswoman for the Jordanian government.