Two men have been arrested and charged in Italy as investigators look into the deaths of 26 Nigerian women and girls, who are suspected to have been murdered while attempting to cross the Mediterranean.
The
bodies of the women were brought to the southern Italian port of Salerno by the
Spanish ship Cantabria on sunday 5/11/2017, and prosecutors opened an investigation
over suspicions that the women, some as young as 14, may have been abused and
killed.
The
bodies were recovered by Cantabria, which works as part of the EU’s Sophia
anti-trafficking operation, from two separate shipwrecks – 23 from one and
three from the other. Fifty-three people are believed to be missing.
The
men arrested have been named as Al Mabrouc Wisam Harar, from Libya, and
Egyptian Mohamed Ali Al Bouzid.
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