Fourth worst ever terror attack that killed 796 was 'sparked by tragic teen love story'
dailystar.co.ukkilled and at least 1,500 others wounded in what was the fourth deadliest terror attack of all time. Some think it was the final domino in a chain that started with a girl, 17, falling in love with a boy who belonged to a different religion.
The Yazidi communities bombings consisted of four coordinated suicide truck bomb attacks in the towns of Til Ezer and Siba Sheikh Khidir in Iraq. READ MORE: Terrifying note warning 'bomb on this plane' saw emergency services scrambled to airportThose towns were mostly home to Yazidis, a minority group indigenous to Kurdistan with their own ethnic religion - Yazidism.
Within the context of the Iraq war, tensions had been building up in northern Iraq between Yazidis and Sunni Muslims in the months prior to the attack.
According to Al Jazeera: "The Yazidis are considered heretics by some Muslims because they originate much of their beliefs and practices from non-Islamic sources, including a myriad of ancient polytheistic religions."Multiple outlets have reported that al-Qaeda were distributing leaflets in the region denouncing Yazidis as "anti-Islamic".
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