The 26 girls who were reportedly sexually abused and murdered on the Mediterranean Sea while trying to cross into Italy are been buried today in Southern Italy.
A journalist shared a photo of the girls in their caskets at the Italian cemetery in Salerno.
At the cemetery in Salerno, Italy with @AP colleagues to cover funeral of 26 young Nigerian women who drowned at sea pic.twitter.com/vRkN8XcCK8
— Trisha Thomas (@TrishaThomasAP) November 17, 2017
Channel 4 News Paraic O’Brien also shared on his Twitter a clip of women laying flowers on the caskets.
Good morning. I’m in Salerno (south of Naples) to cover the funerals of the 26 Nigerian women (mainly teenagers) who drowned crossing Med on the 3rd Nov. pic.twitter.com/SEXvyjRJ3f
— Paraic O'Brien (@paraicobrien) November 17, 2017
Blue flowers were also placed on the caskets of two of the deceased who were pregnant.
The 2 coffins with the blue flowers are for 2 of the 26 women who were pregnant pic.twitter.com/6JbAKXW6fH
— Paraic O'Brien (@paraicobrien) November 17, 2017
Although the Nigerian Government is still yet to release a statement concerning their deaths.