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17.04.2015 Headlines

Ghanaians, Nigerians Drown On Mediterranean Sea

By StarrFMOnline
Ghanaians, Nigerians Drown On Mediterranean Sea
17.04.2015 LISTEN

About 12 Ghanaian and Nigerian migrants have been confirmed dead after they were thrown into the Mediterranean Sea.

The twelve were drowned after a fight broke out between Christians and Muslims who were migrating from Libya to Italy.

The original group of 105 people left Libya on Tuesday in a rubber boat.

Sometime during the trip north across the Mediterranean Sea, the alleged assailants - Muslims from the Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal -- threw the 12 overboard.

Other people on the voyage told police that they themselves were spared "because they strongly opposed the drowning attempt and formed a human chain," the Italian police said.

The boat was intercepted by an Italian navy vessel, which transferred the passengers to a Panamanian-flagged ship.

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