One of the survivors of the sunken migrant boat was arrested for the rape and murder of a teenage girl

The Italian police announced the arrest of one of the survivors of the drowned migrant boat on the charge of murdering a teenage Iraqi girl inside the same boat. The Italian news agency reported on Wednesday (June 26) that the man, who was also Iraqi, had raped the girl after her death, although a police spokesman did not confirm this in an interview with AFP. The police statement emphasizes that while the yacht was far from the coast of Italy, the Iraqi man assaulted and assaulted the 16-year-old girl, another survivor of the boat, causing her to suffocate. The Italian police say that the suspect is in custody in the prison of Catanzaro, the capital of the Calabria region.

Among the passengers of the sunken boat that reached the coastal waters of the Calabria region in Italy from Turkey and then capsized, only 12 people survived and efforts to find the missing people continue. On Monday, June 10, a boat with 76 passengers, who were illegal immigrants, set off from the port of Bodrum in Turkey, three days later, on June 13, the boat capsized, and on June 17, the Italian Maritime Police was able to find this boat and rescue its 11 passengers. 8 of them were Kurds. More than half of the boat passengers were Iranian Kurds and Iraqi Kurds.