On June 5, a boat carrying refugees sank off the coast of Algeria. Out of 26 people on the boat, 18 were Syrians and included women and children. Only one Syrian and one Algerian survived.
On June 5, a boat carrying refugees sank off the coast of Algeria. According to the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), most of these refugees on the boat, which was supposed to arrive in Spain, were from Afrin and Serêkanîye occupied by the Turkish state, and included children.
While the AANES Foreign Relations Department had been working since to retrieve the bodies of the citizens who lost their lives on the sunken boat in Algeria, the bodies of 11 people were brought to northern Syria on Friday as a result of talks between AANES, Kurdish Red Crescent Hevya Sor a Kurd and the governments of Algeria, Lebanon and Damascus.
The bodies were handed over to the Cizire and Euphrates regions autonomous administration officials and Heyva Sor a Kurd representatives at the border crossing between AANES and Damascus regime areas in Tabqa.
Bodies of 8 victims were then taken to Kobanê and 3 to Qamishlo, and handed over to their families.
In Kobanê, residents and families of the victims bid farewell to the 8 drowned citizens.
The 3 victims from the Turkish-occupied Afrin city were laid to rest in the cemetery in the Hilleli district of Qamishlo.
