Child's body found in Tigris after Mosul ferry accident

Locals follow the search and rescue operations around the site after a ferryboat sank in Iraq’s Tigris River, leaving at least 100 people dead, in Mosul, Iraq on 21 March, 2019 [Abdullah Rashid / Anadolu Agency]

Turkish rescue teams found the body of a child in Iraq’s Tigris River on Monday, some 10 days after a ferryboat accident that left at least 100 people dead, reports Anadolu Agency.

The body of a 15-year-old Turkmen child was retrieved from the river on Monday with the help of 20 Turkish divers from the Turkish Naval Forces Command, an underwater search-and-rescue team dispatched by Turkey’s IHH humanitarian relief foundation, and another rescue team sent by Iraq’s Interior Ministry.

On March 21, a ferryboat reportedly carrying 170 passengers sank in the Tigris River near Mosul, the regional capital of Iraq’s northern Nineveh province.

At the time, rescue teams had managed to pull at least 12 survivors from the river.

Nine people have so far been detained in connection with the incident.

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