The tragedy of an Iraqi bride who was swallowed by the English Channel... She was wrapped in a shroud instead of a wedding dress

Maryam Nuri Hamadamin, a 24-year-old Iraqi Kurdish woman, is the first victim of the English Channel tragedy, where 27 people died Thursday, during an attempt to illegally emigrate.

The English Channel swallowed the Iraqi Maryam Nouri, while preparing to meet her fiancé, but a blue body was recovered, and he wrapped a shroud instead of the white wedding dress.

And about the tragedy of Maryam, the Iraqi preacher, Amin Baran, who lives in the United Kingdom, said that she was messaging him during this journey of death, when the boat began to sink, according to the British “BBC” network.

He indicated that she was constantly trying to reassure him, that nothing bad would happen, and that the rescue teams would seek to help them.

Baran pointed out that they were exchanging messages on Snapchat before the water began to leak into the boat, which began to lose its balance, while the passengers began to take out water from it, indicating that he was following her location using the Global Positioning System (GPS).

Mary had traveled to Germany and then to France;

She tried to join her fiancé, who lives in Britain.

According to the network, Maryam, who is known as Baran, was still studying when she got engaged recently, as she left her studies in order to be reunited with her fiancé.

One of her relatives said that "Maryam's parents are completely devastated" after the news that reached them, especially as she was still "a young woman in the prime of her life."

"It's a tragedy for the whole family, and everyone is in shock right now," she added.

The BBC quoted her fiancé as saying that she had contacted him by phone when the air began to rise from an inflatable boat she was on with a group of migrants.

He confirmed that she tried to reassure him, explaining that they would be rescued;

Where she was on this boat with her relative.

A fishing boat sounded its siren on Wednesday afternoon when it spotted several people in the sea off the coast of France.

But help reached them too late, and 17 men and six women died in the accident - one of whom was pregnant, and three children.

Only two people survived, one Iraqi and the other Somali.

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