ZAKHU, Iraq (Reuters) -- Up to 40 people were swept away and drowned as they tried to cross a swollen river in the far north of Iraq on Tuesday, families of the victims said.
Dozens of people were packed onto a flat barge boat, trying to cross a tributary of the Tigris river, when a rush of water swept down the river and overturned the barge, witnesses told a reporter for Reuters at the scene.
The accident occurred near the town of Zakhu, on Iraq's border with Turkey, about 500 km (300 miles) north of Baghdad.
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