{"id":36633,"date":"2019-03-21T20:23:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T20:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36633"},"modified":"2019-03-21T20:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T20:23:15","slug":"ferry-capsizes-in-iraqs-tigris-river-killing-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=36633","title":{"rendered":"Ferry capsizes in Iraq&#8217;s Tigris river killing 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\"> (CNN)<\/cite>At least 77 people died, including 12 children, when an overcrowded ferry capsized in Iraq&#8217;s Tigris river in Mosul during Nowruz and Mother&#8217;s Day celebrations, officials said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Nearly 150 people were on board, including over 80 women and children, according to health ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The ferry was transporting people from a bank of the river to a small tourist island called Um al Rabeein.<strong> <\/strong>It capsized halfway because of high water levels in the river, according to Nineveh mayor, Abd al-Sattar Habu. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNN)At least 77 people died, including 12 children, when an overcrowded ferry capsized in Iraq&#8217;s Tigris river in Mosul during Nowruz and Mother&#8217;s Day celebrations, officials said. Nearly 150 people were on board, including over 80 women and children, according to health ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr. The ferry was transporting people from a bank of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}