More than 40 passengers 'celebrating Kurdish New Year' dead in Mosul ferry sinking
The ferry was overloaded, police and medical sources say.Most of the casualties on the ferry were women and children who could not swim, the head of Mosul's Civil Defence Authority Husam Khalil said.There was believed to have been around 200 people aboard the ferry celebrating the Kurdish New Year, according to local reports.The rescue team is still retrieving survivors and has rescued 12 people so far, Mr Khalil said earlier.
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