- Italy has started investigating death of 26 Nigerian women
- The bodies of the women were recently recovered at sea
- They are suspected to have been murdered as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean
Italian prosecutors have launched investigations into the deaths of 26 Nigerian women whose bodies were recovered at sea.
The women who are mostly teenagers, aged 14-18 are suspected to have been murdered as they attempted to cross the Mediterranean.
Already, five migrants are being questioned in the southern port of Salerno.
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A Spanish warship, Cantabria, docked there carrying 375 migrants and the dead women, following several rescues, BBC reports.
The media outlet further reported that twenty-three of the dead women had been on a rubber boat with 64 other people.
Media in Italy reported that the women's bodies are being kept in a refrigerated section of the warship.
Most of the 375 survivors brought to Salerno were sub-Saharan Africans, from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana, The Gambia and Sudan, the daily La Repubblica reports.
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Among them were 90 women - eight of them pregnant - and 52 children. There were also some Libyan men and women on board, BBC added.
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Source: Naija.ng