Eight members of a family die in fatal car accident in Duhok
DUHOK, Kurdistan Region - Eight people died and three others were injured in a tragic car accident in the early hours of Sunday on a highway near Duhok city.
The incident happened when Stivan Ashud, an employee from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Interior Ministry, and his father, wife, and eight children were returning home from Alqosh, Mosul province to Semel, Duhok province.
They were all from the same family consisting of eight children, Stivan Ashud the father, a mother, and a grandfather. Three of the children are severely injured and the rest have died.
This deadly car accident has gone viral across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region with people taking to social media platforms to express their sincere condolences, sharing their sorrows with the family and relatives of the deceased Christian family.
"Plenty of times we asked everyone [the authorities] to repair this road [Alqosh-Sheikhan road]," Sivan Ashud, Stivan's brother said while crying. "We want to be helped in order for the lives of the remaining three children to be saved."
Car accidents are a common occurrence in the Kurdistan Region in comparison to many countries. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report from 2018, road traffic injuries were the leading killer of people aged five to 29 globally, and the estimated rate of traffic fatalities per 100,00 population in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region was 20.7 percent in 2016.
Over 600 people were killed in traffic accidents across the Region in 2021, with more than seven thousand injured, the spokesperson for the Region's traffic department told Rudaw in January.
The incident happened when Stivan Ashud, an employee from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Interior Ministry, and his father, wife, and eight children were returning home from Alqosh, Mosul province to Semel, Duhok province.
They were all from the same family consisting of eight children, Stivan Ashud the father, a mother, and a grandfather. Three of the children are severely injured and the rest have died.
This deadly car accident has gone viral across Iraq and the Kurdistan Region with people taking to social media platforms to express their sincere condolences, sharing their sorrows with the family and relatives of the deceased Christian family.
"Plenty of times we asked everyone [the authorities] to repair this road [Alqosh-Sheikhan road]," Sivan Ashud, Stivan's brother said while crying. "We want to be helped in order for the lives of the remaining three children to be saved."
Car accidents are a common occurrence in the Kurdistan Region in comparison to many countries. According to a World Health Organization (WHO) report from 2018, road traffic injuries were the leading killer of people aged five to 29 globally, and the estimated rate of traffic fatalities per 100,00 population in Iraq and the Kurdistan Region was 20.7 percent in 2016.
Over 600 people were killed in traffic accidents across the Region in 2021, with more than seven thousand injured, the spokesperson for the Region's traffic department told Rudaw in January.