Dozens of people have died as an overloaded ferry sunk in the Tigris near Mosul in Iraq, according to local officials, The Independent reports.
Most of the casualties on the ferry were women and children who could not swim, said the head of Mosul’s Civil Defence Authority, Husam Khalil.
He said the ferry had been loaded to several times its capacity. “It can normally carry 50 people. There were 250 on board before the incident,” he said.