Nigeria: Mediterranean Tragedy - Buhari Sets Up Ministerial Committee to Investigate Death of 26 Nigerian Girls

17 November 2017

The federal government has set up a ministerial committee to examine the circumstances surrounding the death of 26 teenage Nigerian migrant girls found dead in the Mediterranean early November.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how the girls were found on a Spanish ship and eventually buried in Italy by authorities there on Friday after an autopsy. The autopsy found that the victims died of drowning.

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