ROME (AP) — Italy's migration crisis took on a deadly new
twist Thursday as police in Sicily reported that Muslim
migrants had thrown 12 Christians overboard during a recent
crossing from Libya, and an aid group said another 41 were
feared drowned in a separate incident.
Palermo police said they had detained 15 people suspected in
the high seas assault, which they learned of while interviewing
tearful survivors from Nigeria and Ghana who had arrived in
Palermo Wednesday morning after being rescued at sea by
the ship Ellensborg.
The 15 were accused of multiple homicide aggravated by
religious hatred, police said in a statement.
The survivors said they had boarded a rubber boat April 14
on the Libyan coast with 105 passengers aboard, part of the
wave of migrants taking advantage of calm seas and warm
weather to make the risky crossing from Libya, where most
smuggling operations originate.
During the crossing, the migrants from Nigeria and Ghana —
believed to be Christians — were threatened with being
abandoned at sea by some 15 other passengers from the
Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali and Guinea Bissau.
Eventually the threat was carried out and 12 were pushed
overboard. The statement said the motive was that the
victims "professed the Christian faith while the aggressors
were Muslim."
The surviving Christians, the statement said, only managed to
stay on board by forming a "human chain" to resist the
assault.
Earlier Thursday, the International Organization of Migration
said four migrants who were picked up in recent days by the
Italian Navy reported a shipwreck to aid workers after arriving
in the Italian port of Trapani Thursday. Their boat had
originally been carrying 45 people; the others are presumed
dead.
The IOM said the migrants — two Nigerians, a Ghanaian and
one Nigerien — were found floating in the sea by a helicopter
and were rescued by the Italian Naval ship Foscari. They had
left Tripoli in Libya on Saturday and stayed adrift for four
days. The location of the rescue was not immediately known.
The new tragedies come just days after aid agencies reported
400 presumed dead in the sinking of another ship near the
Libyan coast. The deaths have raised calls for a more robust
search and rescue of the seas between Libya and Europe
amid a surge in migration between the Middle East and Africa
toward Italy.
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Colleen Barry contributed to this report from Milan.

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May. God help humanity.

I see this as greed. I can't fathom while someone would embark on such risky ventures if not for greed!

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Please read more on the event before commenting. It's more of survival than greed.

And they said it's a religion of peace. I am yet to encounter that peace. Almost all other religions are more peaceful than them.

If atheists were aboard , both the moslems and christians would have put up a joint effort to throw them overboard. The benefits of religion...

Even in Poverty the hate runs deep in their hearts.
Imagine Senegalese, Malian and Ivory Coast doing these to fellow west African fellows from Nigeria and Ghana.

Too bad.

ZKOSOSO:
Even in Poverty the hate runs deep in their hearts.
Imagine Senegalese, Malian and Ivory Coast doing these to fellow west African fellows from Nigeria and Ghana.

Too bad.

That's the fruit of religion...same way the afghan bombs his fellow pakistani even though they are the same race. Same way the shia moslem sprays bullets on sunni yet they all claim to worship allah. Same way the biblical isrealites committed repeated acts of genocide all because their all knowing god says so...same ppl say "we are all children of god".

Illegal immigrants on a boat got into a fight and some were thrown into the lagoon end of story FULLSTOP

tartar9:
Illegal immigrants on a boat got into a fight and some were thrown into the lagoon end of story FULLSTOP

u r Sick.
CNN reported religious hatred toward xtians by muslims and u r trying to trivialise this wicked jihad on poor xtian Immigrants?

So to you its no biggie?