ISIS blow Kakayeen shrine, 20 000 families displaced from Hamdania

by **Kevind53** Thu Aug 28, 2014 12:39 pm

Thursday, 28 August 2014 13:04

Shafaq News / A source revealed in Nineveh on Thursday the return of terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria “ISIS” organization to blow up and destroy religious shrines

and places in the areas they control in the province, adding that the terrorists blow up and destroyed two religious places of Kakayeen sect in Hamdania district.

The source told “Shafaq News", that “ISIS terrorists bombed “Sayed Hayas “ shrine that belongs to Kakayeen Kurds which is located in Rotek village in Hamdania district, adding that the shrine was built 700 years ago”.

The source pointed to the bombing of "Haider Pawah" shrine of the same sect in the same area.

Observers expect that ISIS terrorist would blew all the shrines belonging to sects and religions in areas dominated by them in Nineveh plain, especially with the progress of Peshmarga forces backed by US-Iraqi joint air cover.

According to a local source, ISIS terrorists blew up a third shrine of Kakayeen in Nineveh, while pointing to the displacement of thousands of members of the community with the escalation targets of ISIS.

The local source told “Shafaq News” that “ISIS terrorists blew up this afternoon “Sayed Qanbar shrine in Hamdania district“

Kakaeeya is a Kurdish sect in which its main home is Kirkuk city on the banks of Great Zab River in the Iraqi-Iranian border. most of them live in Kurdistan, Kirkuk , Khanaqin , Mandali , Jalawla and Nineveh areas and little in Baghdad, as well as in eastern Kurdistan: in Qasr Shirin , Kermashan and Serpil Zhao. They have a marked presence also in Tal Afar.

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