By Mazin Majeed Asaad Baqal </p> <p>MOSUL, Iraq (AA) – Turkish rescue teams found the body of a child in Iraq’s Tigris River on Monday, some 10 days after a ferryboat accident that left at least 100 people dead.</p> <p>The body of a 15-year-old Turkmen child was retrieved from the river on Monday with the help of 20 Turkish divers from the Turkish Naval Forces Command, an underwater search-and-rescue team dispatched by Turkey’s IHH humanitarian relief foundation, and another rescue team sent by Iraq’s Interior Ministry.</p> <p>On March 21, a ferryboat reportedly carrying 170 passengers sank in the Tigris River near Mosul, the regional capital of Iraq’s northern Nineveh province.</p> <p>At the time, rescue teams had managed to pull at least 12 survivors from the river.</p> <p>Nine people have so far been detained in connection with the incident.</p> <p>*Writing by Sibel Morrow
