About 12 Christian Nigerian and Ghanaian 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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