Blasts target churches in Mosul
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
In Mosul, a person was killed and 40 others wounded in two blasts which targeted two Syrian Catholic Churches at 11 a.m. A car bomb, struck the Syrian Orthodox Church of Purity in police neighborhood, killing a citizen and wounding 40 others. While the second bomb struck the Syrian Catholic Church of the Annunciation in the north of the city without causing victims. It is to be noted that November 26 two blasts targeted a Chaldean Church and a Monastry for Dominican without causing any losses in lives.
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