Family mourns daughter who drowned in Channel

Irbil, Iraq : A wake for Nouri, called Baran by her friends and family, was held in Soran in the Kurdish semi-autonomous northern region. Male relatives sat outside the family home, counting prayer beads in her remembrance, in line with local customs.

Her body has not yet reached Iraq, pending legal issues.

Nouri, 24, had boarded an inflatable boat carrying migrants with hopes of being reunited with her fiancé, Karzan in Britain. She had managed to get a Schengen visa to Europe, and traveled to Italy on Nov. 1, and later Germany and France.