Another funeral in Iraq, this time for the pilot of a helicopter that crashed 24-hours earlier while delivering aid to Yazidi refugees, trapped without food or water in the mountains of northern Iraq.<br/> <br />According to witnesses the aircraft had unloaded the aid, and taken on more than 20 Yazidis, when it crashed shortly after take-off.<br/> <br />Several of the passengers were injured.<br/> <br />The Yazidis are desperate to escape from Islamic State militants who've driven them from their homes, accusing them of being "devil worshippers".<br/> <br />Over the past week, aircraft have been dropping food and other supplies to the tens of thousands of refugees hiding in the mountains.<br/> <br />And attending the pilot's funeral Nuri al-Malaki the outgoing prime minister who many accuse of failing to end the sectarian divisions in Iraq but who refuses to step down.
