Gunmen shot dead two Christian sisters and wounded their mother in northern Iraq's Mosul city on Wednesday, said a local police source.
"Unknown armed men stormed a house of a Christian family in the al-Qahira neighborhood in northeastern Mosul, killing two sisters and wounding their mother," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
One of the two killed victims is an employee in the Nineveh governorate offices, the source said.
He said the gunmen left a bomb at the house before they fled the scene, which later detonated as a police force entered the house, wounding three policemen.
Media reports said that more than 2,000 Christian families fled their homes in the provincial capital city of Mosul in October after a wave of killings, and took shelter in the northern and eastern fringes of the Sunni-dominated province of Nineveh.
Source: Xinhua
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