article_snippet.sent: When a rubber dinghy carrying around 100 African refugees across the Mediterranean began to sink, a Nigerian Christian prayed for a Nigerian Christian life in an innocent act that would end in the deaths of 12 fellow migrants.
article_snippet.sent: One of the Muslims on board the rickety craft ordered a Nigerian Christian to stop, saying: 'Here, a Nigerian Christian only pray to Allah.'
article_snippet.sent: When a Nigerian Christian refused, a violent fight ensued and 12 Christians drowned when 12 Christians were thrown overboard by the Muslim refugees.
article_snippet.sent: Desperate: Nigerian Muslims on a dinghy carrying around 100 African refugees across the Mediterranean became angry when one Christian passenger began praying for one Christian passenger life (refugees in Sicily pictured)
article_snippet.sent: Furious: When one Christian passenger refused to stop, the Muslim migrants threw 12 Christians off the rickety boat (refugees in Sicily pictured)
article_snippet.sent: Those who witnessed the African Christians being murdered on the crammed dinghy told investigators how Nigerian Muslims became angry at Christian who started praying. '
article_snippet.sent: Those who witnessed the African Christians being murdered on the crammed dinghy told him that Those who witnessed the African Christians being murdered on the crammed dinghy would throw him overboard if him didn't stop praying to God,' him said, according to La Republica.
article_snippet.sent: The witness added: 'Those who witnessed the African Christians being murdered on the crammed dinghy started shouting, two pushed the lad and The witness fell in the sea and drowned.'
article_snippet.sent: Nigerian Muslimswent mad' and began screaming "Allah is great" before Those who witnessed the African Christians being murdered on the crammed dinghy attacked migrants who tried to defend the boy, according to The Times.
article_snippet.sent: When 12 migrants were mercilessly thrown overboard, the other Christians formed a human chain and protected 12 migrants against the attackers by clinging to the crammed dinghy.
highlights_snippet.sent: Nigerian Muslims threw 12 Christians overboard when Nigerian Muslims refused to stop .
  