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Fourth Christian killed in northern Iraq
A Christian student was found dead in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Wednesday, the fourth in as many days, amid warnings of rising violence against the minority ahead of March 7 polls.
The bullet-riddled body of Wissam George, a 20-year-old Assyrian Christian, was recovered on a street in the south Mosul residential neighbourhood of Wadi al-Ain at around 1:00 pm (1000 GMT).
"George went missing this morning on his way to his institute, he was studying to be a teacher," said a police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity.
George is the fourth Christian since Sunday to be killed in the city, which has a Christian population of between 2,000 and 3,000.
"What can we say?" said Bishop Shlemon Warduni, the second-most-senior Chaldean bishop in Iraq.
"We are very sad. The government is looking at what is going on, it is speaking, but doing nothing," he told AFP.