Hundreds of migrant Muslims and Christians, including childrens thought to have been killed in the sea at the end of last week, when they attempted to cross from Libya to Italy, Save the Children said in a statement posted on Tuesday (14/4).
Charity organization for children to collect information from a group of 150 survivors were rescued by the Italian Navy and transported to the city of Reggio Calabria, southern Italy.
Save the Children said more than 5,100 migrants have arrived on the coast of Italy between Saturday (11/4) and Monday. Among them there are also many as 450 children, 317 of them without accompanied by an adult.
"Many of them have suffered or witnessed violence horrible experience and have lost friends, relatives or parents," said CEO of Save the Children in Valerio Neri, Italy, in a statement.
Neri described the situation in Libya as "growing out of control" with "unimaginable violence also occurred in the road".
About 10,000 migrants who attempted to cross the Mediterranean Sea raised from the sea in the last few days.
In a separate incident, Italian police said they had arrested 15 Muslim migrants who allegedly threw 12 Christians into the sea from a boat that took them.
Hundreds of migrants have died in dangerous traveling since the beginning of the year. The beginning of this week, about 400 people are believed drowned when their boat capsized.
In the latest incident, the survivors - a citizen of Ghana, two from Nigeria and a man of Niger- told the Italian police, their inflatable boat sank shortly after leaving the Libyan coast with 45 people in it.
They rescued the Italian navy and arrived in Sicily on Thursday (16/04) together 600 migrants who attempted to cross by using a number of boats.
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