nearly 100 dead as ferry sinks in Tigris river

Almost 100 dead as Iraq ferry sinks on spring holiday trip

Almost 100 people, mostly women and children, die as a ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year sinks in a swollen river in the former jihadist stronghold of Mosul, in Iraq’s worst accident in years.

March 22, 2019
March 22, 2019

Almost 100 dead as Iraq ferry sinks on spring holiday trip

Almost 100 people, mostly women and children, die as a ferry packed with families celebrating Kurdish New Year sinks in a swollen river in the former jihadist stronghold of Mosul, in Iraq’s worst accident in years.