The death of a young refugee by drowning in Erbil
ARK News... The Kurdish youth, Iyad Rashid, on Thursday, July 28, 2022, drowned in the waters of the Great Zab River near the Kawergosik refugee camp in the countryside of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.
After hours of a continuous search for him, the rescue teams found his body, retrieved it, and handed it over to the young man's family.
The young man, Iyad Rashid, hails from the village of Ali Gamish in the countryside of Derik, in Syrian Kurdistan. He is a resident of Kawergosik camp.
His funeral is scheduled to be transferred today to his hometown through the Pish Khabour - Semalka border crossing, to be buried in his hometown.
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