Nigerian Inquiry Into Death of Girls, Women in Mediterranean Sea

A ministerial committee is examining the circumstances surrounding the death of 26 teenage girls  and women whose bodies were found on a Spanish ship in the Mediterranean Sea. Reports of the selling of  citizens into slavery, will also be investigated. The committee has also raised questions on the haste in which the bodies were buried without full disclosure of their identities or nationalities.

 

The Mediterranean Sea (file photo).

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