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Al-Sumaria News also reported on Thursday that local Mosul official Zuhair al-Chalabi told the outlet that ISIS likewise "implanted explosives around Prophet Daniel's tomb in Mosul and blasted it, leading to its destruction."
The tomb of Daniel, a man revered by Muslims as a prophet though unlike Jonah, he is not mentioned in the Quran, has also been reportedly destroyed. Al-Arabiya reports that Zuhair al-Chalabi, a local Mosul official, told Al-Samaria News that "ISIS implanted explosives around Prophet Daniel's tomb in Mosul and blasted it, leading to its destruction."
In 1923, British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon, estimated the 'actual population' of the Mosul district to be 786,000. Among these, he said, there are 186,000 Arabs, 459,000 Kurds, 66,000 Turks, 62,000 Christians and 17,000 Jews.
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