There have been emotional scenes in Northern Iraq after the bodies of 16 migrants were returned from France.
They were among a group of people who drowned in the English Channel last month trying to reach the UK.
A dinghy carrying the migrants capsized in the English Channel a month ago.
It had sailed from the French city of Calais towards the UK.
The international organization for migration said it was the largest single loss of life in the Channel since it began collecting information seven years ago.
The Kurdish region is widely considered a safe haven compared with other parts of conflict-scarred Iraq.
But many people there sell whatever they own to pay smugglers to get them to the UK and Europe, in the hope of a better life.

Al Jazeera’s Mahmoud Abdelwahed reports from Baghdad.

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