article_snippet.sent: Christian refugees have revealed how Christian refugees linked arms to form a 'human chain' in a desperate bid to stop Muslim migrants throwing Christian refugees into the Mediterranean Sea after an argument about religion.
article_snippet.sent: A group of 15 men were arrested on suspicion of 'multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate'.last week after 12 Christians from Ghana and Nigeria were allegedly thrown off a rubber dinghy into the Mediterranean Sea.
article_snippet.sent: Survivors from the boat, made up of 105 migrants from diverse religions and ethnicities, have now claimed A group of 15 men tried to throw other Christians off the side of the vessel after an argument about religion - but were prevented because A group of 15 men huddled together to create a human chain.
article_snippet.sent: A Christian migrant told how he and others formed a 'human chain' to stop Muslim men who were allegedly trying to throw A Christian migrant overboard.
article_snippet.sent: Fifteen men were arrested on suspicion of 'multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate'.last week after 12 Christian men from Ghana and Nigeria Nigeria were allegedly thrown into the Mediterranean Sea .
article_snippet.sent: he said: ‘About a day and a half into the crossing, at a certain point some Muslims started to rail against us Christians just because we practiced a different religion. '
article_snippet.sent: Many said that some Muslims should throw us into the Mediterranean Sea.
article_snippet.sent: After the threats us found us in open sea and not long after some Muslims started to throw some Christians in the Mediterranean Sea.
article_snippet.sent: he added: 'some Muslims tried to throw me and the other Christians still on board as well but some Muslims didn't manage to because us held onto the boat and clung onto each other', according to Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera. '
article_snippet.sent: The police statement said The 15 migrants  motive for the attack on their arrival in Palermo was that the victims 'professed the Christian faith while the aggressors were Muslim.'
highlights_snippet.sent: Boat travelling from Libya to Sicily when 12 Christians thrown overboard .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Police arrested Muslim migrants for murder 'motivated by religious hate'
  Survivors said religious hate'
  Survivors clung to each other to stop men trying to drown men .