Muslim migrants throw Christians overboard ‎

Italian police on Thursday arrested 15 Muslims on suspicion of murder after survivors from a packed migrant boat reported they had thrown 12 Christians into the sea after a dispute which broke out after people on board began praying for their lives. The police came to know of the incident after interviewing some of the refugees who survived the crossing, who burst into tears as they described the violence.   All of them were on a boat carrying 105 migrants, who left the coast of Libya, on April 14, and arrived in Palermo the next day.   Witnesses say that at some point during the crossing, a fight broke out between a group of young Muslims and a group of Christians; the former threatened to kill the Christians and throw them into the sea "because they are Christians."  After wounding one of them with a knife, the group of Muslims from Senegal, Ivory Coast and Mali threw 12 Christians from Nigeria and Ghana  into the high seas, where they are believed to have drowned. Another group of Christians - those who later testified - risked the same fate but formed a "human chain" to withstand the onslaught.