MOSUL: At least 72 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in the Tigris river near Mosul in Iraq, medical sources told Reuters on Thursday. 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. A separate source in the Civil Defence Authority said the boat had been loaded with twice its capacity, causing it to capsize. Police and medical sources said earlier at least 40 people had drowned. A source in a nearby hospital and another in a morgue said the toll had risen to 72.

Source: Pakistan Today March 21, 2019 15:45 UTC