As many as 41 migrants drowned after a small boat carrying refugees sank in the Mediterranean, Italian media have reported, days after up to 400 were lost in another shipwreck.
Four survivors told Italian police and humanitarian organisations that their inflatable vessel sank not long after leaving the coast of Libya for Europe with 45 people on board.
According to the men picked up by the Italian navy vessel "Foscari" after they were spotted by an aircraft, the old inflatable boat quickly began losing air forcing the migrants into the water.
The four- a Ghanaian, two Nigerians, and a man from Niger- arrived in Trapani in Sicily today with 600 other migrants picked up by the Italian navy and coastguards as they tried to make the perilous crossing.
The new tragedy happened as Italian police said they had arrested 15 African Muslim migrants after witnesses said they had thrown 12 Christian passengers overboard following a brawl on a boat heading to Italy.
The victims were "of Christian faith, compared to their attackers who were of Muslim faith," police said in a statement, saying the 15 people arrested were accused of "multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate".
An estimated 10,000 migrants have been brought into Italian ports in recent weeks.
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