In a terminal at Erbil airport, families waited in emotion for the arrival of the victims.
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The bodies of 16 victims, who died in November in a shipwreck in the English Channel that left 27 dead, were repatriated Sunday, December 26 before dawn in Iraqi Kurdistan, where families were waiting for them to organize a funeral, noted a AFP photographer. The plane arrived around 2 a.m. at the airport in Erbil, the capital of the autonomous region in northern Iraq. The victims were transferred to ambulances which left the airport to transport them to their hometown in Kurdistan, the photographer said.
The bodies will go to the cities of Darbandikhan, Ranya but also Soran or Qadrawa, where AFP had met in November the families who were waiting in anguish for news of a son or a loved one potentially on the boat. .
In a terminal at Erbil airport, families waited in emotion for the arrival of the victims, according to the AFP photographer.