Two Men Are Accused of Smuggling After 26 Girls Were Found Dead in the Mediterranean
SOURCE: http://time.com/5014624/nigeria-migrant-deaths-italy-smuggling/
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Two suspected human smugglers were arrested in Italy this week after the bodies of 26 Nigerian women and girls, all of them believed to be teenagers, were found dead on the Mediterranean Sea.
The Guardian reports that the two suspected smugglers, identified as Al Mabrouc Wisam Harar from Libya and Mohamed Ali Al Bouzid from Egypt, are accused of trafficking at least 150 people, but prosecutors have not directly linked them to the deaths.
It is still unclear exactly how the women and girls died, but autopsy results are expected soon.
Investigators suspect that the women and girls, some as young as 14, may have been murdered while attempting the dangerous smuggling route between Libya and Europe. The bodies were reportedly discovered by an anti-trafficking rescue boat called the Cantabria at the site of two separate shipwrecks.
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