At least 72 people are dead after a ferry sank in the Tigris River, near Mosul in Iraq.<br /><br />The ferry was overloaded, police and medical sources say.<br /><br /><br />The passengers were reportedly celebrating the Kurdish New Year.<br /><br />Most of the casualties on the ferry were women and children who could not swim, the head of Mosul's Civil Defence Authority Husam Khalil said.<br /><br />Reports close to 3pm said 55 people had been pulled from the water.<br /><br />Shortly before 4pm (GMT) police and medical sources put the death toll at 72.<br /><br />CNN reported 33 women, 12 children, and 10 men had died in the capsize, citing Ministry of Health spokesman Saif al-Badr.
