article_snippet.sent: Barbaric human traffickers are separating migrants by race, locking those with the darkest skin below deck where death is inevitable if the boat sinks, survivors have told.
article_snippet.sent: Teenagers arriving on the Italian island of Lampedusa told how passengers from sub-Saharan Africa were placed in the hold with no water, sunlight or, crucially, means of escape.
article_snippet.sent: One boy from Somalia told aid workers from Save The Children: 'The Libyans who got me to Italy are not human. '
article_snippet.sent: The Libyans who got me to Italy pushed eight Nigerians into the sea.
article_snippet.sent: The Libyans who got me to Italy drowned.'
article_snippet.sent: Conversely, Yusuf, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy who fled Gaza for Italy in February, said he was placed on an upper level with other people from the Middle East, it was reported by The Independent.
article_snippet.sent: the 20-metre (66-foot) boat initially set off from Egypt and then stopped off on the Libyan coast near the city Zuwarah to pick up more passengers, the 20-metre (66-foot) boat has been reported.
article_snippet.sent: the 20-metre (66-foot) boat set off from Libya on Saturday and sent out a distress signal shortly before midnight 120 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa.