According to
report, 12-Nigerian and Ghanaian migrants who were travelling on a boat with
Muslim migrants from Libya to Italy were this week killed after the Muslims on the
boat threw them overboard following a religious clash on the boat.
The illegal
immigrants, 105 of them in number, left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. When they sailed north
across the Mediterranean Sea, a fight broke out and the Muslim occupants in the
boat, mainly from Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal engaged in a fight with their
fellow immigrants who were Christians and threw 12 of them overboard, Italian
police said.
Other Christians
who survived the attack on the boat told police that they were spared
"because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human
chain".
The Italian police
have arrested 15 of the Muslims that carried out the attack and they will be
charged with multiple homicide.
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