Iraqi, Rojava women with a child sink in a river on Kurdistan-Turkey border
Two women and a two-year-old child drowned in a river while trying to cross Turkey's border to arrive at imagined safety.
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – Two women and a two-year-old child drowned in a river while trying to cross Turkey's border to arrive at imagined safety, a Kurdish police officer said on Monday.
On Sunday, three people tried to cross the Kurdistan Region border from Mergasur area to enter Turkey without immigration papers, but they lost their lives to a mighty river flow.
“Two of them were a mother and a child that are ethnically Arab from Baghdad,” the spokesperson of Soran Police Hawar Argoshi told Kurdistan24. “The mother’s name is Sahar Fadhil and the 2-years-old child was Marwa Mohammed Uda.”
The third woman was Jivin, a 20-years-old from Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava).
Police added that Fadhil's body remained on the offshore of the river from the Kurdistan Region side and now it is in Soran Forensic.
He noted that the mother and child were transferred to a forensic in the Kurdish-populated city of Van (Wan) in the southeast of Turkey.
Kurdistan Region is home to almost two million Syrian refugees and Iraqi internally displaced persons (IDPs) who fled from the Islamic State (IS).
Many displaced have attempted to make their way to Turkey, hoping to later find a home in a European country but Turkey's government has restricted visa and border security measures.
According to international reports, countless thousands of people have died in the Aegean Sea while trying to make their way from Turkey to Greece.
Editing by Ava Homa
(Tayfur Mohammed contributed to this report)
