Around 15 Nigerian and Ghanaian Christians were thrown to their deaths on Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea by fellow travellers from Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal as they attempted to land in Italy from Libya in search of a better life in Europe.
According to Reuters on Friday, the Italian police in the Sicilian capital of Palermo, arrested no fewer than 15 men from the three countries suspected to have carried out the gruesome act under religious bias on Friday.
The arrests came after survivors told the Italian police that the suspects had thrown 12 people from Nigeria and Ghana to their deaths, threatening other Christians in the process. The men were arrested on the grounds of multiple homicides fuelled by religious resentment.
There was no information on how the other three died during the tragic voyage.
“The motive for the resentment was traced to their faiths. Twelve people are said to have drowned in the waters of the Mediterranean, all of them Nigerian and Ghanaian,” the Police said.
The victims of this sad incident, the latest on the Italian coast, were among around 100 African migrants trying to enter the European nation illegally by boat.
About 41 more deaths were reported in a separate incident in the region, according to the Italian Police which has had a tough time trying to contain the population of illegal African migrants who touch down at the country’s coastline almost every day.
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