Precautionary measures to protect churches in Mosul

By AKnews

Nineveh, April 20.
Security precautions procedures have been adopted around Christian churches east of Mosul, according to a member in Nineveh province council from Ishtar Christian list.
"We received intelligence information from the Iraqi army reports that the Christian churches and areas will be targeted, therefore the army, police and security guards took all security precautions to prevent any criminal act," Saad Tanios said."
"The safety procedures focus on the churches to avoid breaches of suspected cars, but there is no curfew and they are just security precautions, based on intelligence information. The region is opened and the people move normally. "
Qaraqosh, Karmales, and Bartalah towns, where the majority of Christians live, are 20 to 30 km east of Mosul. An official source said earlier that an explosion targeted a bus transporting Christian students to Mosul University without any casualties.
The Christian community in Nineveh province was subject during the second half of February to a series of attacks that killed seven of them. Four were killed, including 2 students in separated attacks, while three people were killed from one family. This shows an escalation in the operations targeting the Christians, especially in Mosul where Arabs, Kurds, Muslims and Christians co-live.