Youhanabad is an area in

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. It is the largest majority Christian area in the city. A 2006 report put the number of inhabitants at 200,000, while it was reported by ''

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'' in 2015 that the area was home to at least 100,000 Christians. Two churches were attacked on 15 March 2015, a Sunday, by suicide bombers. At least 15 people, including two policemen, were killed and 78 injured, 30 of them critically. The militant Islamist group

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said they were behind the attacks. An enraged Christian mob killed two Muslims, in an instance of Street Vigilantism, and later it was revealed that the two Muslims were innocent though eyewitnesses claim the individuals were involved in the attack. Later, many Christians were arrested. It was named in 1970 after the name of a boy youhana son of a well-known Landlord Palous Massih.Palous had owned almost half of the area and the remaining was owned by many englo-indians.

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