12 Nigerian & Ghanian Christian
migrants killed following religious
clash on a Boat in Italy
12 Nigerian and Ghanian migrants who were traveling
on a boat with Muslim migrants from Libya to Italy
were this week killed after the Muslims on the boat
threw them into the sea following a religious clash on
the boat. According to report, the motive for the
attack was because the victims 'professed the
Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim'.
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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