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Deadly attacks on Iraqi Christians continue
>From Jomana Karadsheh, CNN
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
* Attacks on Christians started October 31 in Baghdad and have spread north
* The latest victims include two brothers and an elderly woman
* Iraq's Christian community is down to almost a third of what it once was
RELATED TOPICS
* Iraq
* Christianity
Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- Three people were killed Monday in Iraq in the latest
attack targeting Christians, police in the city of Mosul said.
In one attack, two Christian brothers were killed in Mosul when gunmen broke
into their workplace in an industrial part of the city and shot them. The
brothers were welders who owned the shop.
On Monday evening, police found an elderly Christian woman strangled in her
home in central Mosul.
The attacks on Christians started October 31 in Baghdad have extended to the
northern parts of the country, such as Mosul.
Last week, a bomb attached to the vehicle of a Christian man detonated in
eastern Mosul, killing him and his 6-year-old daughter, local police told CNN.
The November 16 attack came one day after two Christian men in adjacent homes
were killed after gunmen stormed their houses.
Also on November 15, a bomb detonated outside a Christian home. It caused
damages but no injuries.
Iraq's Christian community, which numbered 1.4 million in 2003, is estimated to
have dwindled to 500,000 as many have left the country, the U.S. Commission on
International Religious Freedom has said.
The commission, a U.S. government agency that listed the numbers in its 2010
report, said Christian leaders are warning that this decline could signal "the
end of Christianity in Iraq."
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