Kurdish mother watched children die of cold, thirst off Italian coast 

Cries of “water, water” haunt a Kurdish mother as she recalled how her three children and husband died of thirst and cold when the boat they were in capsized off the Italian coast.
“They all died of thirst. My husband and daughter kept crying for water. All they cried for was 'water, water,'” Muzhda Omer told Rudaw from a hospital in Suvereto where she is receiving treatment.
“My little son and my nephew froze to death. They did not drown. They froze to death.”
Twin shipwrecks off the coasts of Italy’s Roccella Ionica and Lampedusa this week have left dozens of people dead and missing. Many of the passengers were Kurds from the Kurdistan Region and Iran’s western Kurdish areas. Others hailed from other regional countries like Syria.
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