Mosul (AINA) -- Two Assyrian brothers were killed in their welding shop in west Mosul today, according to AFP. Saad Hanna, 43, and Waad Hanna, 40, were shot dead at around noon. "Two Syrian Catholic Christians were killed inside their workshop in an industrial area in west Mosul," said police Major Fathi Abdulrazzaq.

In a separate incident, an elderly Assyrian woman was found Monday evening strangled in her home in central Mosul.