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Body found in eastern Mosul

September 23, 2008 - 06:49:27

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen found an unidentified body, while a bomb exploded targeting a police vehicle patrol in two separate incidents in Mosul, a security source said.
“Policemen found an unidentified body in Senaat al-Karama region in eastern Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
“The body shows signs of gunshot wounds to the head,” he noted.
“The corpse was sent to the forensic medicine department,” he also said.
The source said a sound bomb exploded while a police vehicle patrol was passing in al-Jazaer neighborhood in eastern Mosul, without leaving casualties.
Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
The original city of Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient biblical city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linking the two sides.
Despite having an amount of Kurdish population, it does not form part of the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).
There are different communities in Mosul like Christians, Shiites and Kurds along with a Sunni majority.
The fabric Muslin, long manufactured here, is named for this city. Another historically important product of the area is Mosul marble.
The city is also a historic center for the Nestorian Christianity of the Assyrians, containing the tombs of several Old Testament prophets such as Jonah, Yunus in Arabic, and Nahum.

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