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Italian
police on Thursday reported that Muslims who were among migrants trying
to get from Libya to Italy in a boat this week threw 12 fellow
passengers overboard, killing them, because they were Christians.
CNN
reports that the 12 passengers killed were Nigerian and Ghanaian.
Italian authorities have arrested 15 people in connection with the
incident.
The original group of 105
people reportedly left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat. At some point
during the trip across the Mediterranean Sea, the assailants who are
said to be Muslims from Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal – threw the 12
Christians overboard.
According to
reports, “thousands of people each year make the dangerous sea journey
from North Africa to Europe’s Mediterranean coast, often aboard vessels
poorly equipped for the trip. Many of them attempt the voyage to flee
war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East.”
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