Assyrian Girls Killed in Bartella

Tara Majeed Betros Al-Hadaya, Taghrid Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros and her sister Hala Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros, were were returning to their homes in Bartilla, from a hospital in Mosul where they worked, when their car was attacked by a group of terrorists who opened heavy fire.

The attack took place in the section between the “television area” and the Kokajli district on the main road between Mosul and Bartilla.

Also injured in the attack was another Assyrian woman, Amera Nouh Sha‘ana who was also returning home to Bartilla and another Assyrian driver, Naji Betros Ishaq.

The three female victims were in their twenties. The residents of Bartilla are followers of the Syriac Orthodox Church, and the town is the birth place of His Holiness Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox
Church.