Takfiri militants of the so-called group the “Islamic State in Iraq and Levant” have blown up a shrine for Prophet Seth in the city of Mosul.

Takfiri militants of the so-called group the “Islamic State in Iraq and Levant” have blown up a shrine for Prophet Seth in the city of Mosul.

ISIL destroyed the Nabi Shiyt (Prophet Seth) shrine in Mosul, where the Takfiri group proclaimed  "caliphate" last month by its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

"ISIL militants stopped people from coming close, set explosives in and around the shrine and then detonated them as a crowd looked on," one resident who witnessed the demolition told AFP.

Seth is revered in Christianity, Islam and Judaism as the third son of Adam and Eve.

Sami al-Massoudi, the deputy head of the Shiite endowment agency overseeing holy sites, confirmed that militants blew up the Nabi Shiyt shrine and added that they took some of the artifacts to an unknown location.

"These people follow this impossible religious doctrine according to which they must destroy or kill anything or anybody deviating from their views," he said.
"That simply has nothing to do with Islam."

The latest destruction comes a day after the terrorists completely leveled the  tomb of  Prophet Jonah (Nabi Yunus) in Mosul, sparking an outcry among religious officials.

"This most recent outrage is yet another demonstration of the terrorist group's intention to shatter Iraq's shared heritage and identity," the top UN envoy in Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, said.