Shiite Muslim worshippers light candles as they pray for the victims of a sunken ferry, outside the golden-domed Shiite shrine of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim, in Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, March 22, 2019. A ferry overloaded with people celebrating the Kurdish new year sank in the Tigris River near the Iraqi city of Mosul on Thursday, killing dozens of people, mostly women and children, officials said. (Farid Abdulwahed/Associated Press)BAGHDAD — Iraq’s parliament voted on Sunday to sack a provincial official following the tragic sinking of a ferry in the Tigris River that killed nearly 100 people, the house’s deputy speaker said. Hassan al-Kaabi told The Associated Press that the majority of the house’s 329 members voted to sack the governor of Nineveh province and his two deputies. A special investigation team, which includes judges and prosecutors, was set up to determine why the ferry sank.

Source: Washington Post March 24, 2019 13:16 UTC