article_snippet.sent: Yeboah, from Ghana, told police in Palmero that he boarded a dinghy in Libya heading to Sicily last Saturday and said Fifteen men threw three of he friends and six others into the water.
article_snippet.sent: us resisted for an hour and only stopped when the boat arrived.
article_snippet.sent: know why maybe because there were too many of us on board.
article_snippet.sent: One of us understood what they were saying that they wanted to throw us into the sea. '
article_snippet.sent: Soon afterwards they threw three Nigerians and six Ghanaians into the sea, after desperate attempts by each one not to be thrown overboard.'
article_snippet.sent: A rescue operation coordinated by the Italian coast guard involving 18 ships is still underway in the hopes of rescuing more people from the midnight sinking off the Ivory Coast, 120 miles south of the Italian island of Lampedusa.