Gunmen shoot down merchant in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A merchant was killed inside his store by unidentified gunmen in western Mosul city on Monday, a police source in Ninewa said. “The gunmen stormed the shop in the area of al-Bursa, western Mosul, shot down the owner and escaped to an unknown place,” the source told IraqiNews.com. 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 Kurdistan RegionG). There are different communities in Mosul like Christians, Shiites and Kurds along with a Sunni majority. 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. AmR (P) 1