The Iraqi parliament unanimously voted on Monday to dismiss Nineveh governor Nawfal al-Aakoub and his two deputies, and to refer him to court after the sinking of the ferry in Mosul last Thursday, which killed more than 100 people, mostly women and children.

The vote came at the request of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, following the tragedy suffered by the people of this city, which is still suffering the destruction of battles lasted months until it was restored from the control of the Islamic State Organization in July 2017.

According to the provisions of the Constitution, the House of Representatives can dismiss the governor by an absolute majority on the proposal of the Prime Minister.

The decision of the House of Representatives also completed the investigations on the phrase, and the accountability of the defaulters, and to consider the victims of the incident martyrs and compensation of their relatives, while ensuring the right of these to resort to the judiciary.

Civil defense crews continue to search for the bodies of the ferry accident (Al Jazeera)

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Al-Jazeera correspondent in Mosul quoted sources in the Civil Defense as saying that hopes were dwindling in finding more bodies. Civil defense teams believe that the speed of the river flow at the time of the accident caused the bodies to be washed away. These teams managed to get the ferry out of the river without finding any body.

The Iraqi authorities have not released an official count of the number of missing persons in the coup, but sources in the city of Mosul suggest that more than 60 people are missing.

The authorities announced last Thursday mourning three days, and issued orders to arrest 16 people in the context of ongoing investigations into the incident.

Sit-in
Three days after the incident, hundreds of students, professors and staff of the University of Mosul gathered in a silent sit-in on campus in solidarity with the victims of the ferry.

The protesters held banners calling for "retribution of the perpetrators of the incident and the fight against corruption in its forms."

The convoy was attacked last Friday as it tried to inspect the site of the painful incident of throwing stones by angry demonstrators.