Immigrants clash on refugee ship; Muslims throw Christians overboard
April 17, 2015
Italian police arrested 15 Muslim immigrants on April 16 after a brutal incident in which at least a dozen Christians were thrown overboard from a boat leaving carrying refugees from Libya to Italy.
Witnesses reported that gangs of refugees turned against passengers from other nations, throwing some from the vessel and prompting others to escape onto flimsy life rafts. As many as 40 people may have drowned before Italian authorities intervened to rescue the survivors.
The suspects were charged with multiple homicides, carried out “for reasons of religious hatred.”
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Further information:
- Muslims, Christians in migrant-boat battle,12 dead (ANSA)
- 15 Muslim migrants arrested for throwing 12 Christian refugees into the sea (AsiaNews)
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