Italian police: Muslim migrants threw Christians overboard
By Hada Messia, Livia Borghese and Jason Hanna, CNN
Updated 2017 GMT (0317 HKT) April 19, 2015 | Video Source: CNN

• The 12 victims were from Nigeria and Ghana, police said
• The group of 105 people left Libya, bound for Italy
• More than 10,000 people have arrived on Italian shores from Libya since last weekend
• Rome (CNN)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 the 12 were Christians, Italian police said Thursday.

Italian authorities have arrested 15 people on suspicion of murdering the Christians at sea, police in Palermo, Sicily, said.

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, police said.

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

The boat was intercepted by an Italian navy vessel, which transferred the passengers to a Panamanian-flagged ship. That ship docked in Palermo on Wednesday, after which the arrests were made, police said.

The 12 who died were from Nigeria and Ghana, police said.

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.

More than 10,000 people have arrived on Italian shores from Libya since last weekend alone, according to the Italian coast guard.

Many die each year while attempting the voyage, often when boats capsized. Last year at least 3,200 died trying to make the trip. Since 2000, according to the International Organization for Migration, almost 22,000 people have died fleeing across the Mediterranean.

The IOM reported Thursday the latest boat to sink in trying to make the journey. Only four people survived from the original 45 on board, bringing the estimated death toll so far this year close to a thousand.

CNN's Hada Messia reported from Rome, and CNN's Livia Borghese reported from Augusta, Sicily. CNN's Jason Hanna wrote in Atlanta. CNN's Ben Wedeman contributed to this report.

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/16/europe/italy-migrants-christians-thrown-overboard/index.html

sugarvallly:
rip to the dead

kpaofame:
Terrible


I wonder what Islam as a religion teaches



Islam is peace but extremism; suicide bombing; force marriage and Violence trails it...It is terrible

kpaofame:


Terrible


I wonder what Islam as a religion teaches



Islam is peace but extremism; suicide bombing; force marriage and Violence trails it...It is terrible

OLAADEGBU:

African Muslims killing their fellow Africans who are not Muslims proves that Islam is the root cause of these evil acts and not simply their respective cultures.

Annunaki:
Islam is extremely evil in nature and it inspires hatred against people who don't accept their horrible religion.

Annunaki:


Islam is extremely evil in nature and it inspires hatred against people who don't accept their horrible religion.

sugarvallly:


rip to the dead

OLAADEGBU:


How evil can an ideology get?

tartar9:
Igbo man,why do you have to revive an old news

tartar9:
since when did they start cutting leg liar!

johnydon22:
Theft in Islam is a crime punishable by amputation of the limbs of the offender, isn't that obviously barbaric?

johnydon22:
Old news you say? The issue is the action is a very evil one and the least you could do is condemn the people who perpetrated this act and condemn their actions, don't go pulling out unfounded defence because it makes you look like you support it, if at all you don't

tartar9:
it is the hand that is cut off after numerous considerations

tartar9:
i condemned the action before.do you think oladegbu even cares about the people who died.he is just looking for any possible way to attack Islam.

johnydon22:
And this is ok by you?

tartar9:
it is the hand that is cut off after numerous considerations

plappville:


Like this blood will flow and the god will drink it. allah throat no dey ever dry oo...

johnydon22:
And this is ok by you?

hahn:


So, christians and muslims are busy spewing hate at themselves while an atheist tries to teach them love.

Epic

italo:


What is truly epic is that you think it's 'epic' for an Atheist to teach love.

That says everything.

hahn:


And the irony is that the muslims and christians don't know it themselves.

italo:


Dunno what?

tartar9:
bro,it is called Justice.

Oh so amputating someone's leg because he stole some material items is justice to you? ...Wooow i thought justice means when the punishment fits the crime.

And you see this stupendous savagery to mean justice