Almost 100 dead as Iraq ferry sinks on spring holiday trip
Iraqis looking at pictures of victims of a capsized ferry today, hoping to identify their loved ones. At least 94 people have died in the tragedy, mostly women and children. – EPA pic, March 22, 2019.
ALMOST 100 people, mostly women and children, died yesterday as a ferry packed with families celebrating the Kurdish New Year sank in a swollen river in the former jihadist stronghold of Mosul, in Iraq’s worst accident in years. There was an outpouring of grief among residents who only this year resumed the annual festivities on the banks of the Tigris after the northern city’s recapture from the Islamic State group.
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