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VIDEO: Islamic State gunmen blow up tombs of prophets in Iraq’s Mosul

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26-07-2014 | 13:30

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VIDEO: Islamic State gunmen blow up tombs of prophets in Iraq’s Mosul

Eyewitnesses said Islamic State gunmen destroyed the tombs of two prophets on Friday (July 25).

The destruction of the Jirjees and Sheet shrines came a day after militants blew up the Nabi Younes shrine, one of the city's most well-known and thought to be the burial site of a prophet referred to in the Koran as Younes and in the Bible as Jonah.

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