Protesters block Iraq president's pathway over ferry sinking that kills at least 95.
MOSUL, Iraq — Iraqi residents of the northern city of Mosul, angry over the sinking of a ferry in the Tigris River that killed 95 people, blocked a road where Iraq’s presidential convoy was passing on Friday, chanting “no to corruption” and pelting the provincial governor’s car with stones in protest.
The protesters did not harm Saleh but shortly afterward, pelted the SUV of the governor of Nineveh province, Nofal al-Akoub, with bottles and stones, demanding that he be sacked from the post.A video soon emerged, showing the two incidents. In one, Saleh is seen speaking from his car window with the protesters, many of whom were young men. Saleh had rushed to Mosul where he held meetings with security officials over the sinking of the ferry.
The spiritual leader of Iraq’s Shia majority Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for accountability for those responsible for the sinking and urged officials whose ministries were linked to the tragedy to resign. Al-Sistani’s message was delivered by his representative Ahmed al-Safi in the Shia holy city of Karbala.
Iraqi soldiers take away a protester, relative of victims drowned after an overloaded ferry sank in Tigris river, who attacked Iraqi President Barham Salih's motorcade during his visit to the scene, in Mosul, Iraq on March 22, 2019.Iraqi judicial authorities ordered the arrest of nine workers operating the ferry. The men were detained and an arrest warrant is out for the owner of the tourist island where it was headed.
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