The 43-year-old nanny Gyulchehra Bobokulova was found carrying a decapitated head a four-year-old child Anastasia Meshcheryakov while shouting 'Allahu Akbar'
The ravaged city was home to a minority of Christians belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church, the Assyrian Church of the East, Syriac Orthodox Church, Chaldean Catholic and Syriac Catholic Church, and various Protestants.