Mosul residents intensify efforts in search for capsized ferry victims

Last Update: 2019-03-27 00:00:00 - Source: Baghdad Post

Tens of bodies of victims who drowned when a ferry capsized in Mosul, last week, are still unrecovered.

Desperate of authorities in question, the locals have intensified their efforts to search for the rest of the bodies of their family members.

On Tuesday, a Turkish searching team arrived in Mosul to collaborate with the people there in efforts to recover the victims’ bodies, Anadolu Agency reported.

Last Friday a ferry, carrying over 200 people on board, capsized in Tigris River killing more than 100 individuals. 70 others are still missing.