Monireh Heydari Archives - KHRN

July 27, 2021

Kurdish woman drowns after boat capsizes near Greece

Kurdish woman asylum-seeker Monireh Heydari and some other asylum seekers have drowned after a boat carrying them turned over in the Mediterranean Sea near the Crete Island in Greece. The boat carrying mainly civilians from the Kurdistan Region of Iraq sank on 22 July. Although most of the people on the boat were rescued, four days after the incident, there is still no news on...

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