Twelve Nigerian and Ghanaian migrants were thrown overboard following a fight concerning their Christian religion, Italian police said yesterday. The police said 15 African Muslim migrants have arrested over the incident. .
The victims were “of Christian faith, compared to their attackers who were of Muslim faith,” police said in a statement, saying the 15 people arrested were accused of “multiple aggravated murders motivated by religious hate”.
The incident aboard the rubber dinghy, which was carrying about 100 migrants, took place in the Strait of Sicily, between Tunisia and Italy.
According to a group of Nigerian and Ghanaian survivors, a fight broke out over religion, with a group of Muslim passengers threatening the Nigerians and Ghanaians after the latter – who were in the minority – declared themselves to be Christians.
“The threats then materialised and 12 people, all Nigerian and Ghanaian, are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean,” the statement added.
The 15 migrants arrested over the attack on their arrival in Palermo were from Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal.
In a separate migrant tragedy, as many as 41 migrants were feared drowned after refugee boat sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media reported.
Four survivors reported the incident to Italian police and humanitarian organizations.
The four survivors said they were originally from Sub-Saharan Africa and had left the city of Tripoli in Libya on Saturday. They then stayed adrift for four days before their boat was wrecked, the IOM spokesman said in a statement.
“It appears that the four were found floating in the sea by a helicopter and were then rescued by the military ship Foscari,” the IOM said.
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Posted: at 17-04-2015 07:53 AM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Thank GOD it was not on nigeria soul dat they will lobby for their freedom thru fake allayiance. They shld be sent to life imprisonment or firing squad. Useless pple.
Posted: at 17-04-2015 01:17 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Thank GOD it was not on African soil dat they will lobby for their freedom thru fake allayiance. They shld be sent to life imprisonment or firing squad. Useless pple.
Posted: at 17-04-2015 01:32 PM (10 years ago) | Addicted Hero
Killing Christians AND at the same time wanting to live in FREEDOM in a CHRISTIAN country!!!! They should have directed the boat towards Syria with the murdering mullahs in it.
The sad thing is that the Christian country that these murdering mullahs ate RUNNING to, will be fed, housed and given FREE medical care by the Christians they HATE!
Islam preaches violence. When will it end?
Posted: at 17-04-2015 03:58 PM (10 years ago) | Gistmaniac
The action of those muslims is hell unless they repent, nowhere in Quran to justify their action. Where are those making these when xtian descended on muslim in central african republic to the extend of burning them and eating their flesh.check this web. So, this is xtianity, ignorant people as ignorant muslim
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