15,000 People Have Fled Mosul, Iraq in the Last Two Weeks

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Mosul (AINA) — Officials in Mosul have told AINA the number of Assyrians driven out of Mosul in the past two weeks has risen to 15,000, or about 2500 families. Threats, intimidation and murder by unidentified groups have instilled fear and panic in the Christian Assyrian community, causing a massive exodus into the Assyrian villages in the Nineveh Plain. Thirteen Assyrians have been killed in the past four weeks. At least three Assyrians homes were bombed on Saturday. Notes have been left instructing the Assyrians to leave the city immediately or face reprisal.